ABSTRACT
Greg sealed cracks in the background-inside support by hallucinating himself into the external accoutrements of woman. The woman Greg hallucinated himself to be was not especially sexual. Greg was captivated more by the way he imagined a woman to move, speak, and dress, the adornments of a woman, than by her sexuality. The background-inside support became an external shell. Greg became a flamboyant, outrageous image of woman, not a deeply feeling sexual woman. The explicit threat of paternal violence made maternal threats less visible. Sandy used therapy’s emphasis on honesty against it and himself. The issue of trust was a dangling carrot that tyrannized and tantalized therapist and patient alike. Psychoanalysis teaches that sexuality has many currents and subcurrents, dominants and subdominants.
