Here is the basic beginning of he Oedipus story.
Oedipus was the child of Laius and Jocasta, the ruling couple of Thebes. Eager for future-knowledge, Laius journeyed to the oracle at Delphi who gave him the most unwelcome news that his newborn son would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Perturbed by this news, Laius gave his new son to a herdsman and ordered him to be killed. A spike was driven through baby Oedipus' ankles (causing his ankles to become inflamed and earn him his name, which literally translates as 'swollen-footed') and he was left on the side of Mt. Cithaeron to die. However, destiny cannot be avoided that easily and Oedipus survived....
you can read the rest here:
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/GreekMyths/Oedipus/
I'm one of the CDs who would like to understand why I do what I do, and I know there are others here of the same mind.
I'm inclined to believe that it is more psychological in origin than chemical and that might explain why we didn't all start at puberty as is clear from the many stories related here on the forum. Hormonal changes at puberty are pretty uniform among humans around the world but our psychological lives would be varied and seem closer to an explanation for various starting points.
Freud applied this story in his practice of psychoanalysis and I'm wondering if there isn't some foundation here upon which we might also seek an answer.
Not to be taken literally in our case, we are not going to kill our fathers and marry our mothers, but we can appropriate her clothing and marry her symbolically! We kill off our fathers by ignoring him and identifying with her through her clothing--women's clothing. This might even work as an explanation for those who have SRS--they don't marry their mother's--they become her via surgery.
Many here have mentioned their first experience with CDing was trying on mothers clothing or some of it. some here really identify with underwear that could be the erotic longing for the wife/mother figure. And , this doesn't necessarily cut our those who began late in life.
Often mentioned as reasons for why we are CDs are hormones, DES for some of us older CDs, some claim hobby status, some claim "pleasure" ( which might be interpreted as Oedipus on his wedding night). None of these general things seem to really answer the question , why?. There isn't anything mental or biological, in my opinion, that does not have a reason for its being. We simply haven't identified it yet, or have and ignored it. There has been mention of "brain changes" but that was based on 2 postmortem brains where there might be any possibility for the CD/TG condition. 2 brains does not a population make. We can read anything that we want into that fact. Some look to "hardwiring" but that is likely after-the-fact explanation for lack of something else. Are we born this way? or are we this way due to nurture or malnurture rather than nature.?
In the end there will be one explanation and it will cover all the variations, just like a theory in science.
what are your thoughts?