Continuing the previous Post, someone blocked at the transition stage can’t have intimacy and complicity with the opposite sex because they haven’t internalized both sexual idealized identities and, hence, can’t be in tune with the erotic escalation of desire in the opposite sex/energy. Theoretically speaking, partial or full blocks in transition stage lie in the incomplete fusion between idealized identities and infantile ones. That is to say that blocks impede a new feminine idealized identity reference to be merged with the feminine infantile identity model, coming from the mother (or anyone who played this role), in boys’ cases-, and they impede a new masculine idealized reference to be merged with masculine infantile identity model, coming from the father (or anyone that had this function), in girls’ cases.
Someone blocked at this stage counts on:
1) Masturbation- as a discharging channel,
2) Sexual behavior, with no intimacy or long-term relationships with no erotic intimacy.
In both cases, people don’t emotionally overcome the first boyfriend stage.
Sexual identity conclusion
At this stage both boys and girls are supposed to have well structured idealized sexual identities from both sex/energies. They have, therefore, a solid ground for Sexual Interaction, i.e, intimacy and complicity in erotic and sexual exchanges. According to Dias, a sexual interaction is the most complete erotic discharge between two people. It means, in other words, that they can be physically in tune with a different body and with passive and active energies/drives. If people have a well-developed sexual identity so far, they complete their adult sexual identity. In this case, typical blocks at this stage happen, basically, because of moral rigidity. Thus, erotic intimacy in sex is jeopardized or impeded not because of the lack of sexual identity development, but due to difficulties in exploitation of desire in their own bodies and during sex. Hence, typical blocks ate this stage come from:
-Difficulties or impediment in full exploitation of sex
People with this kind of block also have sexual intimacy and complicity harmed, for reasons associated with moral restraints: linking sex to dirt, punishment, shame, etc. Conflicts associated with theses blocks, however, are usually more acceSsible to psychotherapy, since people are aware of them. They are, therefore, functional blocks.
To be continued in the next Post
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