The author stresses the distinction between patients who require overt sexual experiences with partners of each sex (actual bisexuality) and those who have vivid conscious fantasies of such activity. Actual bisexuals act out an oscillation between object attachment and narcissistic object choice. Beneath this apparent wish to maintain a libidinal tie with both parents lies an inability to resolve ambivalence toward an unavailable mother. Attachment gives rise to the danger of unmanageable instinctual urges, producing a narcissistic regression and object choice. This regression involves the danger of psychotic withdrawal and ends in a desperate return to the object of "attachment." The author encourages psychoanalytic