ABSTRACT
Gender and sexual identity have been defined and the conflictual and nonconflictual components of each have been delineated. This chapter highlights the large body of literature from other disciplines that has influenced current psychoanalytic thought. It samples key papers that have stimulated psychoanalytic writings and also lists and cross-references key papers by psychoanalysts themselves. Lawrence Kohlberg's The Development of Sex Differences addresses the development of sex-role concepts on sexual differences and discusses concepts and attitudes in boys and girls from a cognitive and developmental standpoint. In Identity: Youth and Crisis, Erik Erikson draws on direct observations of play activity of boys and girls ages ten through twelve. He characterizes the play of girls and boys as paralleling the genital anatomical differences between boys and girls. Robert Stoller's Sex and Gender primarily elucidates the mechanisms involved in gender-identity development.
