Abstract
Throughout his tireless theoretical production, Freud looked at the complexity of human sexuality and its development. From the experience of founding the “Laboratório de Sexualidade, Gênero e Psicanálise” at the Psychological Care and Research Service at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) – this essay is intended to produce theoretical tensions regarding the metapsychological paradigms that for a long time sustained psychoanalytic thought. It reveals the great impact of the recognition of the psychoanalysis theoretical and technical lack, which, historically supported by a binary and cis-heteronormative logic, could not account for understanding the multiple forms of the exercise of sexuality. On the other hand, it is understood that the (re)construction of norms makes Psychoanalysis a powerful instrument in listening to modes of sexuality and production of subjectivities. Based on fundamental constructs, it is proposed to follow with the metapsychological support of alterity as access to the status of differences in self-relationships and with others.
Psychoanalysis; Metapsychology; Sexuality; Gender; Alterity