ABSTRACT OF THESIS:
"lesbian and gay identity formation:
the process of coming out as a factor of development"
Valentina Di Colozza
Since the human being has the power of science has always given a name to things, dividing and placing them in the hierarchical relationship between them. We are always labeled forms and lives in order not to fall in ambiguity or unknown, has always preferred to give two names to something that does not give at all, the logic that if you do not see does not exist. The biological dimension (Apprato genital), gender (male and female) and gender identity (the role of man or woman) have lived since ancient times a consequential relationship that led to their overlap. A consequential that is told in a time-efficient (the little girl grow up and become a woman) but which in fact becomes logic-giving irrational individual, even before birth, gender, identity and role. Gender is learned at a time so remote and so widespread that it becomes almost innate, making the subject difficult to understand the possibilities of other values \u200b\u200band forms of behavior.
impossible to be another man and woman, have always condemned and cursed those unborn ambiguous hermaphrodite and intersex. Sexuality in the culture is defined as static, based on a dichotomous gender order that finds its roots in an organic soil: a dimension that identifies two genders, female and male, based on which an order unchangeable love and sacred , that of heterosexuality.
E 'comes from this premise that the introduction to the work of a cultural and social, which seeks to clarify the definitions of gender and identity, concepts that over time have been made ambiguous and spectacle, as in transsexualism.
placing an emphasis on cultural change of the century, due in also the birth of psychiatry, we observed that the representations of homosexuality has changed. The recognition of somatoform pederast for his character, the identification of those psychological characteristics that have made the lesbian, gay or transsexual bodies from
medicalization. Psychiatry, the return of the Darwinian theory, Catholic morality pushed more and more research on the causes of homosexuality as a perversion labeled before, then as a curable disease. The historical excursus and the current social situation that lesbians and gay men living in Italy allows us to conclude the first chapter with the development of theories regarding homosexuality and the importance of coming out, leaving room for interpersonal and intrapsychic dimension of the phenomenon.
Much importance is given to coming out, that will not be seen only as the "time out of the closet," but as the long and difficult process just any teenager or adult who has been, questioning their sexuality. Within the coming out, and thus a particular time of life changes and analyze the attacks affected the self, its representations, self-esteem and quality of life.
thus outlining the most critical moments and important intrapsychic development of a gay or lesbian person transsexual, we can deepen relationships.
In the third chapter, In fact, thanks to a reinterpretation of the theory and systems theory will be examined family patterns and styles during the discovery of homosexuality of his son \\ at, transgenerational secret finally homeostasis and / or change in family structure. Albeit in short dell'omogenitorialità addressed the issue by means of a key to understanding psychodynamics and psychotherapy.
Finally the last chapter, concerning the social area, we will discuss the phenomenon of homophobia, social and internalized, with relevant international research.
L 'hostility, rejection and violence, we often find that the social environment, are reflected on the individual level intrapsychic, where there is a continuous conflict since, for example, non-correlation between homosexual desire and internalized social norms, the instinctual needs and external reality heterosexual-
is assumed, in the process of coming out, a reactivation of a conflict between true inner self and false self (Winnicott, 1974), which activates specific defense strategies, coping mechanisms and other protective factors. That is why our focus will shift defensive organization of lesbian and gay, assuming as a mechanism of unconscious internalized homophobia and social event.
We can say that the use of immature defenses is related significantly with behavior avoidance homophobic homophobic and aggressive behavior, as also confirmed by data from a study of White and AJ Lewis J. (2009).
also emphasize how the events of violence and discrimination experienced or perceived experiences of prejudice, rejection, perceived stigma and internalized homophobia are dimensions related to stressors, which in an almost chronic affect on minorities, characterized as traumatic events, refer in general to the model that we have reference minority stress.
