ABSTRACT
Exploration of the very early levels, as well as the orientations of the various schools of psychoanalytic thought, have suggested many approaches to the problem of the “differences” between male and female: in the development process, in biological “destiny”, in the interplay between identification and dis-identification, in the vicissitudes of sexuality. This debate has always led to enrichment on a much wider scale, because every debate on femininity inevitably involves that on masculinity, within the fertile relational dimension. From the historical point of view, it must be remembered that the concept of bisexuality did not originate with Freud. After Freud, the concept of bisexuality retains its right to citizenship in psychoanalytic thought; but it progressively loses its specificity, detaching itself both from biology and from drives, and assuming shades of meaning that become increasingly vague and ambiguous. But then the discourse becomes confused.
