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Vulvodynia and femininity

Abstract

From a previous study based on the listening of women presenting vulvodynia, we suggested that this organic symptom of vulvar chronical pain, could be considered, from a psychoanalytical point of view, as representing a question about femininity. For the psychoanalyst, identity has nothing to do with genetics, anatomy, gender identity, place in the family, social role... but with a very complex process called sexuation.Going back to the story of “Baubo the mythical vulva” gives us some enlightening about this representation: one, as well of the penis, of the symbolic phallus.Therefore, reconsidering the three sessions we got with 126 women during their medical check up, we identify clinical series characterized by different items: psychic conflicts between maternal and feminine position, problematical imaginary identification to the father or to the mother, stop on the pulsion’s trajectory or the subjectivation’s process.

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