ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Freud's concept of bisexuality and explores how every human being has to process the issues in his or her own mind in order to construct a sense of identity. The concept of identity played no part in Freud's thinking. Even though all human beings may be bisexual, gender identity in the individual is based on the predominance of one of these dimensions over the other. The chapter develops some ideas concerning the transsexual's rejection of his or her genetic sex in an attempt to obtain "another, body, a "true" body that mirrors how the body is experienced in the mind. Transsexuals do not think of themselves as suffering from some mental disorder or other. They consult a doctor because they want reparative treatment, one that will restore their true body, the body that corresponds to their soul and mind.
