ABSTRACT
According to our present theory, the first outline of which appeared only in the third edition of Freud's Three Contributions in the year 1914, the two developments—that of sexual aims and that of sexual object-relations—run parallel to each other. An essential feature of the conception of the pregenital organisations is that it is based on only a few component instincts, and that all these instincts belong to a special class in that all of them possess well-known bodily sources, i.e. are bound to erotogenic zones. The fixated situation which appears in the picture of the illness can assume every form of sexual gratification and sexual object-relation, naturally also pregenital or even auto-erotic forms. However deeply we are able to penetrate with our analytic technique and observations into the history of a man's life, we have always, without exception, found object-relations.
