ABSTRACT
Beginning with his paper, "Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses", Freud increasingly abandoned his seduction theory and began to examine the role of fantasy. This chapter suggests that the reality of things had become obvious to him—that he was "only" a man and was of only one sex—so that, whatever he might do in terms of payment, attacks or whatever, he could never gain access to a female character of his own by means of his genitals. It would not be true to say that all men who engage in anal intercourse within a heterosexual relationship are expressing latent homosexuality, although this is often a reasonable hypothesis to consider. The chapter deals with how personality disorders in the form of destructive narcissism, when combined with dependence upon stimulant-type drugs, can give rise to envy and hate, to violent motives towards inner objects, and sometimes to violent behaviour directed at others.
