Oedipal Teleology
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.70
**A NATURAL EXPERIMENT** > **Sexuality's petri dish**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that post-Stoller psychoanalytic theories of transsexualism produced normative, Oedipal-teleological frameworks that pathologised gender non-conformity by locating its cause in faulty parental identification, and that paradoxically the older biological/constitutional models were closer to a queer, non-binary understanding of sexuality than the liberal psychologising discourse of gender identity that followed.
Stoller was rendering a general psychoanalytic theory of sexuality based on an Oedipal teleology