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Psy Fossils: On Sexual Orientation Conversion and Gender

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the current social and political discussions around the practices of conversion of sexual orientation and gender. We propose to think about the risks that the theories and structuring techniques of the field of psychoanalysis, psychology and psychiatry involve if captured by social, political and religious groups that can use them to legitimize and broaden the power and scope of their propositions regarding exercise of sexuality and gender identity. We construct the hypothesis that certain moral, religious, and conceptual fossils, which belong to the logical and historical records of the constituent theories and discursivities of the psy field, end up being privileged records for such capture of practices and conceptual sense. Among these fossils, we cite the discussions about the psychopathological nature of homosexuality and even about the formation of homosexual psychoanalysts, which provoked intense debates until quite recent times.

Gay Cure; Sexual Conversion; Psychoanalysis; Homosexuality; Religion

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