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IJP 4:494-495 (1923)

Applied: Carl Müller-Braunschweig. Psychoanalyse und Sexualreform. (Lecture given before the International Congress of Sexual Reform. 1921.)

Abstract

1Homosexuality. Homosexuality, including unconscious, latent homosexuality, is normally a transitory phase in the development of the libido from auto-erotism, through narcissism, to the final stage of the libido organisation of the genital and heterosexual object love. Permanent homosexuality, therefore, appears as a partial (sexual) inhibition of development. Among the determining factors being a strong fixation in early childhood to the mother, with a consequent alienation from her arising therefrom, we find also a fixation to the narcissistic phase, the influence of the parent of the same sex, and all the mechanisms of the aetiology of neurosis. Over and above the fixation, we have repression and renunciation, as well as displacement and regression all playing their part. The prevalence of masculine and feminine, active and passive tendencies is not identical with hetero- and homosexual adjustments. The possibility of being able to influence homosexuality by means of psycho-analysis has been proved in a number of cases.
Constituents of sexual reform. Moral inferiority may, but need not be connected with homosexuality. Infantile and archaic traces are often more than compensated by means of cultural values. Whether biological variations (Hirschfeld) or inhibitions of development, the compulsion in both cases is so keenly felt that a penal law can produce no balance to it.
2Connections within the Family.
a.Libido in relation to the members of the family on the part of the child is present from the earliest days; later, however, it will be repressed and often remains so fixated to the unconscious phantasy pictures of the familiar objects that the normal transference of libido demanded from the adult upon an object outside the family miscarries.
b.Through the repression of the early childish libido directed upon members of the family, it often becomes so sharply divided into a purely sexual manifestation (genital) on the one hand, and a tender, apparently asexua

IJP 4:494-495 (1923)

Applied: Carl Müller-Braunschweig. Psychoanalyse und Sexualreform. (Lecture given before the International Congress of Sexual Reform. 1921.)

Abstract

1Homosexuality. Homosexuality, including unconscious, latent homosexuality, is normally a transitory phase in the development of the libido from auto-erotism, through narcissism, to the final stage of the libido organisation of the genital and heterosexual object love. Permanent homosexuality, therefore, appears as a partial (sexual) inhibition of development. Among the determining factors being a strong fixation in early childhood to the mother, with a consequent alienation from her arising therefrom, we find also a fixation to the narcissistic phase, the influence of the parent of the same sex, and all the mechanisms of the aetiology of neurosis. Over and above the fixation, we have repression and renunciation, as well as displacement and regression all playing their part. The prevalence of masculine and feminine, active and passive tendencies is not identical with hetero- and homosexual adjustments. The possibility of being able to influence homosexuality by means of psycho-analysis has been proved in a number of cases.
Constituents of sexual reform. Moral inferiority may, but need not be connected with homosexuality. Infantile and archaic traces are often more than compensated by means of cultural values. Whether biological variations (Hirschfeld) or inhibitions of development, the compulsion in both cases is so keenly felt that a penal law can produce no balance to it.
2Connections within the Family.
a.Libido in relation to the members of the family on the part of the child is present from the earliest days; later, however, it will be repressed and often remains so fixated to the unconscious phantasy pictures of the familiar objects that the normal transference of libido demanded from the adult upon an object outside the family miscarries.
b.Through the repression of the early childish libido directed upon members of the family, it often becomes so sharply divided into a purely sexual manifestation (genital) on the one hand, and a tender, apparently asexua