ABSTRACT
In his paper "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" Freud expressed some views on the nature of human sexuality. Civilization and Its Discontents says that the theory of bisexuality is still surrounded by many obscurities and we cannot but feel it as a serious impediment in psychoanalysis that it has not yet found any link with the theory of the instincts. The theory of bisexuality could not have rested on physiological evidence in any meaningful sense. The prototype of psychological bisexuality is found, it would seem, in the dualism of the child's affectionate feelings for his parents. Rado's proposals were quite influential on the course of psychoanalytic theorizing about bisexuality and homosexuality for the next thirty years or more. Rado goes on to assert that "a truly enormous amount of relevant data has been assembled leading to new formulations and terminology, and that as a result the old speculative notion of bisexuality is in the process of withering away".
