Winterstein distinguishes between the homosexual pervert and the spurious homosexual who misleads himself and others. The homosexual pervert by oral fixation escapes his repressed masochistic attachment to the preoedipal mother. The spurious homosexual is a hysterical neurotic, unconsciously identified with the passive Oedipal mother and fixated at the negative Oedipal phase. By these criteria, the patient discussed is a true homosexual even though he has had no actual homosexual experience.