ABSTRACT
This chapter’s starting point is that, despite the recent public visibility of sexual and gender dissidences in Argentina and Uruguay, psychoanalysis is lagging behind in the understanding and conceptualization of such dissidences. Rethinking sexual diversity is an epistemological problem that compels psychoanalysis to revisit its metapsychological foundations in light of new and yet unthought gender subjectifications. Driven by the question of how to respond to the forms of psychic suffering effected by the biopolitical devise of the closet, Clavero proposes to approach trans-transvestite childhoods as existenciaries: a process of becoming which, in contrast to identity, is open to temporality and contingency.
