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Although, for psychoanalysis, difference is sexual, the question of bisexuality is related to psychoanalytic theory as a whole. What is the position as far as abolishing – or as far as the phantasy of abolishing – this difference is concerned? And how are we to situate this particular problem if the reference points needed to localise it have not been defined? So two stages are involved. First, we shall have to establish the theoretical framework for our project; then, within this framework, we will attempt to elucidate the object of our study which is called the neuter gender.
No other question is better suited to demonstrate the relations between the biological roots of the drive and psycho-sexual life than that of sexuality. This privileged domain is well suited for examining Freud’s hypotheses in the light of the scientific facts of biology, and for comparing medical clinical experience with the findings of clinical psychoanalysis in order to highlight their similarities and differences. Now, so far, this confrontation has revealed profound discrepancies which often confirm, and sometimes undermine, Freud’s metapsychological postulates. The contributions of post-Freudian authors are not exempt from this new examination.