In the neurotic these homosexual germs
are more highly developed. "I have never carried through any
psychoanalysis of a man or a woman," Freud states, "without
discovering a very significant homosexual tendency." Ferenczi,
again (_Jahrbuch fuer Psychoanalytische Forschungen_, Bd. iii,
1911, p. 119), without reference to any physical basis of the
impulse, accepts "the psychic capacity of the child to direct his
originally objectless eroticism to one or both sexes," and terms
this disposition _ambisexuality_. The normality of a homosexual
element in early life may be said to be accepted by most
psychoanalysts, even of the schools that are separated from
Freud. Stekel would go farther, and regards various psychic
sexual anomalies as signs of a concealed bisexual tendency;
psychic impotence, the admiration of men for masculine women and
of women for feminine men, various forms of fetichism,--they are
all masks of homosexuality (Stekel, _Zentralblatt fuer
Psychoanalyse_, vol. ii, April, 1912).
These schoolboy affections and passions arise, to a large extent,
spontaneously, with the evolution of the sexual emotions, though the
method of manifestation may be a matter of example or suggestion.
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