The authors examine the major factors involved in recent changes in attitudes toward homosexuality, citing humanism, legitimization of homosexuality, social science interpretation of sexual dysfunction, the impact of the media, and the implications for psychoanalysis of these changing attitudes. They conclude pessimistically that all signs point to public opinion continuing to resist the significance of libidinal drive in the attainment of emotional well-being, as well as to deny that its being thwarted is a key aspect of emotional disturbance. Psychoanalysis is seen as a weakening intellectual oasis in the midst of powerful current social change.