ABSTRACT
The role of bisexuality had been recognised by Sigmund Freud as early as his correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess. who had made it the cornerstone of his own theories. When Freud finally decides, in 1923, to present the theory of the Oedipus complex which he had envisaged twenty-six years before, he locates the basis of the complex in original bisexuality. The final form of homosexuality seems to be the result of a fixation of certain determining characteristics. The categorical tone of Freud’s denunciation of discrimination against homosexuality is probably proportional to the attempts made in his era to justify its condemnation. The essential difference is that homosexuality can reveal itself more easily through the identifications and the object-choices of homosexuals; or at any rate, it can be more evident. Analytic treatment could just as well lead to the acceptance of homosexuality as to its definitive refusal, sometimes at the price of an imposition of chastity.
