ABSTRACT
Sexuality has progressively become a local topic, or one limited to its immediate manifestations. One can see here the influence of Anglo-Saxon psychoanalysis, for France seems to be an exception to this retreat of the sexual. The progressive domination of British psychoanalysis by Kleinianism has eventually affected even its independent and ‘Freudian’ sectors, which, apart from a few exceptions, have shown little interest in a deepening of the problem of sexuality. The privilege of clinical neutrality is justly brought into question by the sexual. The preponderance of the assignation of sex to children, in opposition to influences presumably biological in origin, reassures psychoanalysts in their defence of psycho-sexuality. Transsexuality is not a psychosis emerging in the field of the sexual; it is a product of that field, one which even has the singularity—in relation to other psychoses—of not appearing as such in the eyes of others.
