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.