In the previous Post we showed how personality, during childhood, is a result of a combination of learned behaviors and introjected psychological atmospheres. They may be hostile, oppressive or repressive, on the one hand, or facilitating ones( of spontaneity), on the other. And they will be sine qua non conditions for children’s freedom to experiment novelties or just repeating parental behaviors. In addition, children also have their own experiences- those that neither come directly from family influences nor from their communities. All of these experiences will play a role in their future possible sexual partners’ choices[1]. This overview helps understand the basis of structuration of children’s personality as well as the onset of puberty as a context of contact with new sensations: sexual energy, affective ambivalences and/or moral ambiguities (not always people’s desires are in tune with their convictions or social expectations they feel the need to correspond). Besides the need to start to express themselves in a personal way (not only as a member of their nuclear family). Our goal on these Essays sequence is to offer a perspective on sexual identity development that can be complementary to existing ones (specially to Aberastury’s Normal adolescence theory) on what we consider to be the most controversial topic: genetic protocol for Masculine and Feminine. Homo sapiens, differently from other mammals, have been “blessed” with creative intelligence, i.e, the ability to intervene in nature in order to satisfy their needs and desires. Such ability have made them apt to survive , in many adverse occasions , as well as apt to create artificial conditions that allow them to enjoy pleasure and creativity in ways that are not ‘natural’. The distinction between what is genetic determined or culturally constructed is not only controversial but also hard to delimit. IS theory , naturally, do not exhaust the topic. The relevance of this debate is to offer theoretical support for clinical understanding and diagnosis and for ethical and moral position over controversies regarding sexuality field.
[1] Conflict between cultural influences and parental upbringing models will be also crucial in the development of sexual identity blocks. We will not dig into this topic because our focus , in this essay, is on phenomenal aspects on identity development and its contribution to understand unconscious aspects on sexual identity development. [2]
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