The clinic, territory of the transsexual discourse

Abstract

This article aims to examine the transsexual discourse in the clinic. Transsexualism, trans-gender or push-towards-the-woman, are not concepts, they’re a way to speak about the clinic, the one we carry forward at Hospital Escuela.It consists in being faithful to the clinic and listening to what occurs in our society. Freud once said that theory is only formulated a posteriori and with provisional title. Therefore, the clinic as territory of the transsexual discourse makes a way out of the psychiatric classifications -from where the term transsexualism originated- as of Lacanian proposals, which have had a dogmatic and religious transmission. On his hand, Lacan mistook his bets, by throwing the transsexual people to the field of psychoses or passions.It’s precise to read the clinic pluralizing the term “transsexualisms” as it’s about the singular discourse, where, in certain subjects, there’s no delirium at stake and the demand for hormonization or reassignment surgery is rather oscillating. Therefore, it alludes to the variability of desire itself, to a specific moment of existence, regarding love life, psy-chic circumstances, etc.When listenning to this discourse, it’s precise to avoid moralizing it, otherwise we’ll be doing something else, which won’t be analyzing it.