ABSTRACT
The child’s physical beauty and artistic abilities made his mother’s “task” of creating a transsexual easier. Since his infancy, strangers had stopped her on the street to comment on how remarkably pretty he was. Almost all psychoanalytic studies concerned with the causes of marked cross-gender behavior in males have been based on the analyses of adult transvestites. A strongly bisexual woman, with severe penis envy derived from her father and older brothers, in its turn the result of a sense of emptiness produced by her mother, married an empty man and had a son. On the one hand, the boy was (the phallus) of her flesh; on the other, he was clearly a male and no longer of her flesh. He was therefore both to be kept as a part of herself, by identification, and treated as an object whom she would feminize.
