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Rank, Otto. Perversion and Neurosis.
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1. Rank, Otto. Perversion and Neurosis.—This interesting paper would present the general point of view upon which the Freudian conception of perversion-formation is based and seek to learn in how far the genesis of the perversions in general can be brought under these generalizations. In this presentation the author first reminds us of the genesis of the masochistic phantasy formation which Freud has so ingeniously developed under the title of A Child is Being Beaten (see Psychoanalytic Review, Vol. XI, p. 464. The relationship of this phantasy element and certain attributes of “homosexuality” are clearly outlined in the psychoanalytic investigation of certain neurotics, whose neurosis, in part, or more completely, point to its being a compromise formation or “half way” stage to the development of the homosexual perversion. Experience has shown that one has frequently to face the full recognition of this situation, but a complete analysis would not leave the patient in this antisocial dilemma but would go further back and attempt to lay bare not only the genesis of the neurotic symptoms, but also the earlier fixation factors which underlie the perversion stage. Thus a complete understanding of the dynamic libido situation would relieve both the neurotic symptoms and the perverse tendencies. Thus Freud's early formulation of the “neurosis being the negative of a perversion” can be better understood and more deeply read into behind conscious rationalizations and repressed phantasy formations. Rank reminds us of the desirability of reviewing the situation and for a need of clear