ABSTRACT
THIS short clinical paper was presented at the First International Congress for Analytical Psychology in 1958. It should be emphasized that the analysis from which the thesis is drawn was concluded some years before and that I had no inkling of Layard's thinking on this subject, or he of mine, until the approach of the Congress led us to discuss the matter a few weeks before the meeting (Layard, 1959). This paper focuses upon the significance of the latent homosexual orientation for symptom-formation, its influence upon the transference, and in particular on the part it plays in the therapeutic process.
