A KIND OF EMOTIONAL ANDROGYNY

Sigmund Freud (1856 1939), the founding daddy of psychoanalysis, inherited the idea of primordial bisexuality and caused it to be the bedrock of their psychoanalytic framework. Looking to erect a theory that is psychological of and sex that will complement the biological fundamentals of psychoanalysis, he posited some sort of emotional bisexuality being an analogue to evolutionary notions of embryological bisexuality. Borrowing the concept from their buddy Wilhelm Fliess (1858 1928), Freud argued that just as primordial bisexuality manifests actually in almost every person by “leaving behind only some traces associated with the intercourse which has become atrophied” (Freud 1905, p. 141), therefore too does it manifest mentally in a way that every individual is “made up of masculine and feminine characteristics” and desires (Freud 1925, p. 255). Continue reading →