Sexual Difficulties and Fears in Women Suffering from Gynecological Pelvic Cancers

Gynecological pelvic cancer is a disease located in the internal genital organs of certain females having undergone hysterectomy. It is thus a castration for these women in the reality of their suffering bodies. Cancer and its treatments are a sum of bodily effractions which reiterate a psychic representation of penetration likened to the passive acceptance of the other into the self. This idea of the foreigner inside of the self brings fantasies, affects and penetrating representations into play which damage the body image, generate images of passivity and revive experiences of «?passivation?». Moreover, this ‘breaking and entering’ specifically acts on the intimate region of sex, where a woman’s and a mother’s destiny are incarnated, calling into consciousness the feminine of the woman in its plural forms but also in its relations with sexuality.