Human sexuality, with regards to sexual identity and object choice, is located in the psychic field, that is, the drive, expressing itself through fantasy. It starts early, when as a child, one is enchanted by an adult, a complex time that combines the foundation of the unconscious, the drive start and the installation of the object from the outside, in the so-called fundamental anthropological situation. As shown by the failure in scientific attempts to find genetic determinants for sexual identity, the discourse on human sexuality clearly leaves the realm of nature for the psychic. Such observation implied, in the field of psychoanalysis, a shift in epistemology similar to the revolution that anthropology had already operated by defining culture as object outside of nature.
Key words:
Sexual identity; object choice; object relation; objectality