ABSTRACT
All psychological symptoms are in a sense "creations" constructed by a child who once desperately sought a solution to the problems of being human; that is to say that all symptoms are attempts at self-cure—and this includes what might be called symptomatic sexuality. In consequence, a drug-like utilization of sexuality becomes necessary to suspend feelings of violence as well as to anaesthetize, if only temporarily, a castrated image of the self, a threatened loss of ego boundaries, or feelings of inner deadness. The primary homosexual wishes of all children, in their dual version—the wish to possess the same-sex parent and the wish to be the opposite-sex parent—also demands solutions in the sexuality of the adult-to-be. The early mother–child relationship may be a decisive factor in laying the foundations for deviant sexual patterns. Neosexualities is not a concept but rather a certain way of listening to the analysands as they describe and explore their sexual lives.
