TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccarelli, P. T1 - Transsexualism, Sex and Gender JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 6 (No. 2, July 1997), pp. 141-146. N2 - The paper discusses what the author calls >The seduction by the father<. It would occur when, in the Oedipus complex, the father reverses his role: instead of being the one who castrates, he seduces. Seduction here is understood in the sense that he does not act as the one who imposes limits to the child. Consequently the child can not project his hostile impulses onto the father. – Based on clinical data, the Author says that, in the male child, the seduction by the father hampers the transformation of the two Oedipal attitudes towards the father into identifications. The consequences of this fact upon the construction of the >nostalgia of the father's protection< are discussed, so as the transformation of this father into the symbolic father. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccarelli, P. R. T1 - May I call you father? JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 12 (No. 4, December 2003), pp. 197-205. N2 - How does the body into which a baby is born become a sexual body? Do the anatomical characteristics of masculine or feminine constitute guarantee for a subject to say that he/she is a man or a woman? – The passage from identifications to identity is a most complex one. To try to clarify this process the author starts by making some reflections on the notion of identity itself from the psychoanalytical point of view. This leads to a central question which is to know if one is born a boy or a girl, or if one becomes one. Working with the fundamental concept of primary identification and the distinction of sex and gender, the author shows, through a clinical vignette, that anatomy is no assurance for a construction of a feeling of gender identity according to the anatomical sex. Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ceccarelli, P. R. T1 - Perversion on the other side of couch JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 14 (No. 3-4, October 2005), pp. 176-182. Y1 - 2005 ER -