WHAT we have learned about homosexuality through psycho-analysis may be put together in a few sentences. The first and most important step towards a deeper knowledge of this instinctaim was the supposition by Fliess and Freud2 that really every human being traverses a psychically bisexual stage in his childhood.3 The “homosexual component” falls later a victim to repression; only a minor part of this component gets rescued in a sublimated form in the cultivated life of adults, in playing, in readiness for social help, in friendship leagues, in club life, etc., a part that is not to be underestimated. Insufficiently repressed homosexuality