In 1893, in his _L'Inversion Sexuelle_, Chevalier, a pupil of
Lacassagne--who had already applied the term "hermaphrodisme
moral" to this anomaly--explained congenital homosexuality by the
idea of latent bisexuality. Dr. G. de Letamendi, Dean of the
Faculty of Medicine of Madrid, in a paper read before the
International Medical Congress at Rome in 1894, set forth a
principle of panhermaphroditism--a hermaphroditic
bipolarity--which involved the existence of latent female germs
in the male, latent male germs in the female, which latent germs
may strive for, and sometimes obtain, the mastery. In February,
1896, the first version of the present chapter, setting forth the
conception of inversion as a psychic and somatic development on
the basis of a latent bisexuality, was published in the
_Centralblatt fuer Nervenheilkunde und Psychiatrie_. Kurella (ib.,
May, 1890) adopted a somewhat similar view, even arguing that the
invert is a transitional form between the complete man or woman
and the hermaphrodite. In Germany a patient of Krafft-Ebing had
worked out the same idea, connecting inversion with fetal
bisexuality (eighth edition _Psychopathia Sexualis_, p.
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