ABSTRACT
Florent's sexual life seems to be a classical example of S. Freud's "On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love". The new status of homosexuality has made it possible for Florent to play out the bisexual variant of his main fantasy. The main contribution of psychoanalysis to this question is to propose a psychogenesis of homosexuality. Or, rather, a multiple psychogenesis, for two reasons: because homosexual "choice" is the result of different psychic histories, and because, for a single individual, psychic determination generally combines different sources. Freud is the first to have suggested a psychogenesis of homosexuality, not homosexuality in general but more specifically pederasty. It is unfortunate that the word "homosexuality" has become the accepted term, since it emphasises the notion of "same" sex, that is, manifest reality, erasing psychic complexity. A single word can cover many different psychosexual realities. There is no prototype of homosexuality, be it masculine or feminine.
