ABSTRACT
The unconscious is said to have no knowledge of time. However, there are many signs that some fairly striking characteristics of our own are the progressive attenuation of conventional manifestations of sexual difference, even a trend towards the complete reversal of masculinity and femininity, hand in hand with a strange bisexual claim. The more of a stake this claims, the more it seems that sexually specific characteristics – which are undoubtedly among these “beautiful differences of nature” that Freud deplored Groddeck for seeking to disparage “in favour of tempting unity” (Letter of 5 June 1917, in E. L. Freud, 1960, p. 324) – tend to diminish, even disappear.
