ABSTRACT:
Current issues on the Freudian 'rock': 'the first pregnant man'. From Thomas Beatie's story, reported by the media as the "first pregnant man", we revisit some Freudian questions about the "factor" of the sexual difference and the difficulties found by psychoanalysis at the limit point of the "rock", identified by Freud. We have detected a possible echo of the "refusal of the feminine", particularly in the French spelling of the expression "pregnant". Concurrently, the "rock" is revealed in its hinge function between the updating of past psychic conflicts, their treatment and the ethical openness promoted by Freud of a positioning of the subject according to the experience of sexual difference, made accessible through psychoanalysis.
Keywords:
Castration complex; assisted reproduction; transsexualism; sexual identity; paternity