ABSTRACT
The autistic process tends to make a very deep and very early split between the elements of psychic bisexuality. Therapists are therefore subjected to splitting projections that tend to dissociate the elements of their own bisexuality, hence the need for meticulous and on-going processing of the countertransference in order to reintegrate the dispersed elements of their own psychic bisexuality. The powerful explosive energy that is liberated when children emerge from their autistic state must be both contained and transformed in order for it to be used in the service of representation and symbolization. Psychotherapists have to be in contact with their own parental identifications and constantly work over the links between the maternal and paternal objects that inhabit their internal world. Integration of bisexuality at the level is the process that leads to the establishment of a clear-cut sexual identity.
