How a girl´s psychosexuality can broaden the debate on female sexuality?

On asymmetries, the confusion of tongues, and the danger of a single story

Authors

  • Marina Bento Gastaud Sociedade Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre

Keywords:

Psychosexuality, Sexuality, Feminine, Asymmetry, Confusion of tongues

Abstract

Based on the clinical case of a girl, the author describes the short circuits that asymmetry, the confusion of tongues, and single stories can create in the debate on female sexuality. She proposes that, both in working with patients and in developing theories about gender, the psychoanalytic method for reducing suffering and alleviating symptoms lies in enhancing translation (in Laplanche’s sense), decreasing the confusion of tongues (in Ferenczi’s sense), acknowledging responsibility, respecting the vulnerability that arises from asymmetries, and legitimizing the multiplicity of healthy, mature, and authentic feminines with which the subject may identify or which they may desire.

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Author Biography

Marina Bento Gastaud, Sociedade Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre

Membro associado da Sociedade Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre (SPPA)/International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).

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Published

2026-06-25

How to Cite

Bento Gastaud, M. (2026). How a girl´s psychosexuality can broaden the debate on female sexuality? : On asymmetries, the confusion of tongues, and the danger of a single story. SPPA Journal of Psychoanalysis, 33(2). Retrieved from https://revista.sppa.org.br/RPdaSPPA/article/view/1443