Paraphilia
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.60
**CHANGING SEX, CHANGING PSYCHOANALYSIS**
Theoretical move: The passage historicizes the term 'paraphilia' to argue that psychoanalysis has occupied a central and paradoxical role in the pathologization and de-pathologization of transgender phenomena, with the concept of parapraxis serving as an implicit analogy for normalizing sexual "deviations" through psychoanalytic framing.
Stekel often discussed cases of cross-dressing and systematized the use of the term paraphilia for unusual sexual behaviors (from the Greek para: beside, beyond, amiss, and philia: love).