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Starting from psychic bisexuality, André Green considers that Freud's thinking on sexuality is based on the one hand on considerations relating to the species (phylogenesis) and, on the other, on repression (linked to the process of civilization). These two 19th-century ideas lead to a certain phallocentrism (paternal complex) that is in conflict with contemporary ideologies. To get beyond the species-culture duality, Green emphasizes two elements : the quest for jouissance (with its correlate, castration) and communication (in the sense of the quest for an Other). Knowledge of the Other is intimately linked to psychic bisexuality (allowing for a double identification), and therefore to the Oedipus complex, but Green considers that, already at the pregenital stage, psychosexual experiences differ between boys and girls. Similarly, from puberty onwards, the body development appears to be more disruptive for girls than for boys, and psychic bisexuality reflects less biological realities and more the idea that each sex has of the other. Finally, the repudiation of femininity in both sexes goes beyond the sexual level and refers to the repudiation of a relationship of complete and passive dependence on a single object : the maternal object at the beginning of life, itself the bearer of a certain “madness”, the passion of love that accompanies pregnancy and motherhood.