Relational Gender Compensation of the Imbalanced Self

Abstract

In this article, I attempt to assess the functions of gender—prescribed by culture—in the acquisition/maintenance of a feeling of cohesiveness of self as well as other conditions that are, on the contrary, at the root of the imbalance of this cohesiveness. I propose to explore the role of gender dimensions in the dialectics between cohesiveness and loss of cohesiveness and which gender identity-related conditions contribute to tip the balance in one or another direction.

Notes

¹I thank Mariano de Iceta Ibáñez de Gauna, M.D., for providing the clinical case.

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Emilce Dio Bleichmar

Emilce Dio Bleichmar, M.D., is Professor and Academic Director of Postgraduate of Child and Family Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, University Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain; Director of Women Department (ELIPSIS); member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).