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most homosexual cases the main facts are, with the patient's
good-will and the investigator's tact, not difficult to
ascertain. Any difficulties which psychoanalysis may help to
elucidate mainly concern the early history of the case in
childhood, and, regarding these, psychoanalysis may sometimes
raise questions which it cannot definitely settle.
Psycho-analysis reveals an immense mass of small details, any of
which may or may not possess significance, and in determining
which are significant the individuality of the psychoanalyst
cannot fail to come into play. He will necessarily tend to
arrange them according to a system. If, for instance, he regards
infantile incestuous emotions or early Narcissism as an essential
feature of the mechanism of homosexuality, a conscientious
investigator will not rest until he has discovered traces of
them, as he very probably will. (See, e.g., Sadger, "Fragment der
Psychoanalyse eines Homosexuellen," _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle
Zwischenstufen_, Bd. ix, 1908; and cf. Hirschfeld, _Die
Homosexualitaet_, p.


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