Discussion of Jorgelina Corbatta’s “Sexuality, Normality, and Social Terror: XXY by Lucía Puenzo”

Abstract

Gender is confusing. Sexuality is confusing. Gender and sexuality are confusing and confounding for children, adolescents, and adults. Jorgelina Corbatta (this issue) gives us a glimpse as to how we might think about the complexity and confusion of gender and sexuality by sharing her analysis of the film XXY (Puenzo, 2007). We are grateful to her, both for her fine discussion of these issues and for sharing a poetic work of art that brings so many complicated topics to light.

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Don Spivak

Don Spivak, M.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist with a private practice in Birmingham, Michigan. He is on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, is the co-clinical director of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s therapeutic school, the Walnut Lake Preschool and Developmental Kindergarten, and the child and adolescent psychiatric consultant to the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority.