ABSTRACT
I want to report here some cases of homosexuality which I have observed. They will afford us a psychological approach to this important problem. This is, of course, only an initial approach and I do not here intend to ‘solve’ that problem. I shall begin with the report of a case I had the opportunity of analysing for seven months. The patient came to me with the complaint that he felt attracted only by men and in no way by women and girls. When he was fifteen years old he once had relations with a servant girl but since then he had never succeeded in any sexual contact. Just before he came for treatment he was in a brothel but could not get an erection and felt very much dejected about it. In none of his relations with men has he ever had real sexual intercourse. All of his relations with men have been of the psychic type and are connected with many phantasies.
