ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud, the most powerful articulator in all of psychoanalysis of differences between the sexes, both anatomical and psychological, also supplied the paradigms for the two forms of sameness argument. Both men and women, he said, are bisexual, both physiologically and anatomically, and in terms of their object choices. Generally in the history of psychoanalysis, reversal arguments have been polemical and polarising, becoming beacons for camps and schools of analysts and thus living long lives because complexly institutionalised. Psychoanalysis was headed towards a very rigid diagnostic thinking—not as symptom-oriented as the DSM eventually became, but nonetheless, very boxy. One-cause thinking in combination with sex-stereotyping led psychoanalysis away from the realisation that the psychoneuroses are culturally shaped—hysteria more than obsession neurosis, but both to some degree—but even more generally it led psychoanalysis away from developing any broad-based, multidimensional, flexible, descriptive character typology.
