Is your sexual normality a symptom?

But there is nothing like sexuality for making a mockery of our self-knowledge

In psycho analytic terms there is the ‘Freudian paradox of traumatic normality’; which from a psychoanalytic point of view, normality is a 'symptom'.

In a judicious account of heterosexuality one might refer to it being from the psychoanalytic standpoint as itself a kind of under-investigated symptom.  The compulsion to diagnose (naming)is coercive and in time becomes a cultural straitjacket.

Where naming in the everyday becomes a norm

"That geyzer, is well divi (divided as folk tale schizophrenia)He a nutter a psycho, out to lunch, not the full shilling.... etc etc.

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