1 This paper addresses certain aspects of my psychoanalytic experience of male and female homosexuality. I should clarify at once that discretion prevents me from going into detail, and that this imposes certain limits on my discussion and inevitably gives it a general character. Some preliminary data are given as a guide to the material in the survey and serve to explain the title of the paper. Subsequently, I will offer a series of considerations on homosexuality of a different nature, with reference to my clinical experience.

2 Over the course of fifteen years I have had five patients in analysis with manifest homosexual behaviour and one case in psychotherapy. Of these six patients the person who underwent a long period of psychotherapy was a notorious homosexual. He had declared himself “different” ever since he was a child, and he came