ABSTRACT
Sadger discovered in the psycho-analysis of several male homosexuals that intense heterosexual inclinations had been displayed in their early childhood; indeed that their "Oedipus complex" had come to expression in a specially pronounced manner. The "homosexual component" falls later a victim to repression; only a minor part of this component gets rescued in a sublimated form in the cultivated life of adults, in friendship leagues, and in club life, a part that is not to be underestimated. Considered from the intellectual aspect obsessional homo-erotism proves to be in the first place an over-correction of the doubt concerning the love towards the man's own sex. A part of the unsatisfied homo-erotism remains "free floating," and demands to be appeased; since this is impossible under the conditions of present-day civilisation, this quantity of sexual hunger has to undergo a displacement, namely, on to the feeling-relationship to the opposite sex.
