ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author had embarked on a psychoanalytic journey at a time in his life when, despite his protestations to the contrary, he did not want to bring into question the catastrophic healing he had brought about by force in his adolescence. He viewed the incestuous or murderous instincts Sigmund Freud attributed to every child as signs of an absence of separation between the parent and a part of the child. The author subscribes to a metapsychology based on the association, in the psyche-soma, of yes and no, of death and the refusal of death. This paradox engenders the subject, the agency that presides over reflection and makes it possible to see, and to see oneself, regardless of origins. A vicarious paradox has been extemporaneously substituted for the original paradox, and with it, a new regime—of sexual orientation, has been introduced.
