Essential to the understanding of homosexuals is the problem of object-choice and object-relations, a problem closely related to the total personality of the homosexual. The author describes some deep affinities between the egos of homosexuals and those of schizophrenics and adolescents. These egos lack fixity of boundaries; their weakness is based on their narcissistic disposition and sometimes there is even a prenatal fixation point. In such cases there is a low frustration tolerance and tendencies toward hypochondria, overevaluation of fantasy, and emotionally loaded object-representations. The original love-hate objects are cathected ambivalently with the result that the ego may function at times with one or another of its segments. The love objects of the homosexual are partial objects and represent not only original infantile love objects but also his self-image at various stages of development. Homosexual acts may be regarded as a form of impulsive instinctual discharge linked with a release of introjects.