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The author discusses the vicissitudes of normal bisexuality and the fate of the homosexual component of bisexuality as adulthood is reached. She draws on her experience with patients in analysis and on her self-analysis. The homosexual component finds expression in normal adult life in enrichment of the narcissistic self-image; it is involved in the ability to identify with the desire and pleasure of the sexual partner in the sexual act, in which, if only briefly, we transcend the narcissistic limits that our monosexuality has imposed upon us. Our relationship with our children is a rich mine and resource of homosexual expression. The author recognizes the vicariously phallic relationship she has with her son. And the intensity of mother-daughter conflicts she has had to deal with would suggest that here too are to be found normal expressions of homosexual feelings and impulses. The pleasure found in intellectual and artistic work is impregnated with homosexual and narcissistic elements, even though the homosexual dimension is rarely conscious. In this process of creation we are both male and female at the same time, and difficulties and blocks in creativity may come from conflicts around this bisexual parturition. Finally, the homosexual investments that link us to friends and colleagues of the same sex are important. McDougall's thesis is that the unconscious homosexuality that finds normal expression in these areas springs from the same sources as that in the unconscious of the active homosexual. What is striking, however, in the analysis of homosexual patients is the violence unveiled in the course of the analysis, directed first against the image of the homosexual's own body, which is attacked in