ABSTRACT
The fundamental bisexual object choice of childhood enables a person later to change his or her object choice, as one possibility is lived and the other does not vanish, but is only suppressed and comes back to life in certain constellations. The daughter's love of the mother is disappointed by the taboo of homosexuality and by the realisation that mother also loves father and not only the child. This frustration might result in changing love to hate, sexual wishes into murderous impulses, and guilt feelings into self-destructive impulses. The good-enough mother provides the sensual foundation for erotic desire to develop in a healthy way, for both homosexual and heterosexual individuals. When the patient's own sexual interests awoke, she was then abandoned by the grandmother, banished from an idyllic paradise, and pushed back into her parents' ambience, into the world of the drives, where she felt unhappy.
