George has been diagnosed as having a sexual identity disorder and he is seeking gender-
reassignment surgery. How would psychoanalytic theorists explain George’s desire to voluntarily castrate himself?
A) George is projecting his sexual perversions onto others.
B) George has identified too closely with his mother and therefore he must castrate himself.
C) George is upset with his father and is displacing that anger onto his own sexuality.
D) George’s biology matches that of a woman and that is why he desires the surgery.
Answer: B
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