ABSTRACT
Homosexuals love women too strongly. They shrink back from it in terror. Repression. Return of the repressed in the form of homosexuality, which for the unconscious still represents the old, intolerably strong fantasies. This kind of secret language of children, in which they may perhaps be intelligible to one another, but which is perhaps really made up for their own use, to relieve their own inner tension, ought to be intensively studied. It might result in the explanation of many characteristics of the neuroses. Homosexuality is a wholesale inversion. Recognition of the sexual lie in themselves and in adults cannot be repressed by children without a substitute formation, and a number choose for the representation of their feelings the formula which children use otherwise also for the representation of an untruth: inversion. But the inversion of the libido generally takes place only in puberty, when sexual desires arc biologically strengthened and are therefore inhibited and transposed to the infantile level.
