ABSTRACT

capitulation, as an analyst treating real patients, to society’s norms. He understood, on the one hand, that bisexuality was ‘natural’; but on the other, when he sought to treat adult homosexuals, he began to talk of their ‘immature’ adjustment, mistaking the ideology of compulsory heterosexuality for a ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human trait. None the less, though Freud himself took the easy way out, his ideas can be developed in other directions.