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  • Essay / 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 "Certain Mechanisms neurotic in jealousy, paranoia and homosexuality. "[1] Freud believed that all humans were bisexual, which primarily meant that everyone incorporated aspects of both sexes and that everyone was sexually attracted to both sexes. According to him, this was anatomically true and therefore also mental and psychological Both heterosexuality and homosexuality developed from this original bisexual disposition.[2] As one of the causes of homosexuality, Freud mentions distressing heterosexual experience: "These cases are particularly interesting in which the libido transforms into an inverted sexual object after a distressing experience with a normal object.”[3] Freud appears to have been undecided whether homosexuality was pathological or not, expressing differing views on this issue. at different times and places in his work Freud frequently referred to homosexuality as an "inversion", which he believed to be the case.,...