Topic > Heterosexuality and homosexuality - 613

Freud's most important articles on homosexuality were written between 1905, when he published Three essays on the theory of sexuality, and 1922, when he published "Some neurotic mechanisms in jealousy, paranoia and in homosexuality". "[1] Freud believed that all human beings were bisexual, by which he primarily meant that everyone incorporates aspects of both sexes and that everyone is sexually attracted to both sexes. According to him this was true from an anatomical point of view and therefore also from a mental and psychological point of view. Heterosexuality and homosexuality both developed from this original bisexual disposition.[2] Freud cites distressing heterosexual experience as one of the causes of homosexuality: "Of particular interest are the cases in which the libido is transformed into an inverted sexual object after a distressing experience with a normal object."[3] undecided whether homosexuality was pathological or not, expressing different points of view on this topic at different times and places in his work. Freud often called homosexuality an "inversion", something that in his opinion...