ABSTRACT
This chapter looks for the answers to the questions in Sophie Freud's work published in the years between 1905 and 1910, that is, in the period between the first and second editions of the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. In Freud's view both narcissism and autoerotism were part of a child's basic mental equipment and not brought about by the admiration of the parents. Freud established the main points of his understanding of sexuality and perversion. Freud addressed the aetiology of male homosexuality in two essays that were published at the end of 1908 and the beginning of 1909, in "On the Sexual Theories of Children" and "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy". Freud's and Isidor Sadger's views of sexuality differed in that Freud assumed that human beings had sexual wishes and asked himself how the patient's current symptoms could have developed from unconscious sexual wishes.
