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Abstract
Following Patricia Gherovici's assertion that “psychoanalysis needs a sex change” (2018), where she calls for the de-pathologizing of transsexual patients, I call for a de-pathologizing of trans narratives which are used in the medical professional's gatekeeping process of HRT and GCS. In this aim, this paper covers the historical doctor/trans patient interactions in a Western context, from the 1950s to present day. In the de-pathologizing of trans narratives I will suggest an intervention into the psychoanalytic technique of the entrance into dreams (Ogden 2001). As such, here the pre-HRT trans patient would be given the space to come-into-being, rather than re-tell known “wrong-body” narratives as explained through case studies in Spade (2006) and Aizura (2018). Thus, the aim would be to outline a doctor/trans patient relationship based on mutual emotional understanding, growth, and an entrance into trans dreams which is not solely constitutive of a transition-based narrative.