164). But the exact weight and significance
of these traces may still be doubtful, and, even if considerable
in one case, may be inconsiderable in another. Freud, who sets
forth one type of homosexual mechanism, admits that there may be
others. Moreover, it must be added that the psychoanalytic method
by no means excludes unconscious deception by the subject, as
Freud found, and so was compelled to admit the patient's tendency
to "fantasy," as Adler has to "fictions," as a fundamental
psychic tendency of the "unconscious."
The force of these considerations is now beginning to be
generally recognized. Thus Moll (art. "Homosexualitaet," in 4th
ed. of Eulenburg's _Realencyclopaedie der gesamten Heilkunde_,
1909, p. 611) rightly says that while the invert may occasionally
embroider his story, "the expert can usually distinguish between
the truth and the poetry, though it is unnecessary to add that
complete confidence on the patient's part is necessary," Naecke,
again (_Sexual-Probleme_, September, 1911, p. 619), after quoting
with approval the remark of one of the chief German authorities,
Dr.
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