ABSTRACT
Psychic homosexuality may act as a source of resistance within analysis, both from the point of view of transference and from that of countertransference. Prior to the recognition of the structural role played by homosexuality within the constitution of the psyche, homosexual transferences—involving the unconscious psychic homosexuality of both protagonists—was often regarded as a stumbling block in analysis. The psychic homosexual position arises from love for the parents of the same sex, and constitutes one of the identificatory mechanisms that peak as the Oedipus complex declines, endowing it with a privileged structural role. The link between paternal issues and the structuring role played by psychic homosexuality is recognised as primordial in the construction of the psyche of boys. The degree of repression of the passive-feminine component bound up with latent homosexuality in relation to a father figure acts a vital point of reference.
