ABSTRACT

Miss Ilse is an impressively attractive girl, 24 years of age, voluptuous, feminine in every way up to her angular, somewhat energetic nose and prominent, curved eyebrows. Her mother, of whom the girl speaks with much feeling, believes that the girl’s breakdown dates from the death of the father. The Frenchwoman was only a sensuous affair with him; the brother belonged wholly to her. They were always together and she knew all his secrets. She probably would have not yielded to the homosexual love of the Frenchwoman had she not been overcome by the fact that the woman was her brother’s sweetheart. The father played a negligible role in her life and had no influence on the development of her homosexuality. Her depression was soon relieved and her hatred of children disappeared entirely.