ABSTRACT
This translation originally published in Stekel, W. (1950 [1922]) BiSexual Love, trans. J.S. van Teslaar, New York: Emerson Books. Bi-Sexual Love, as it appeared in English in 1922, was taken from the longer work Onanie und Homosexualität (Masturbation and Homosexuality) (1920). In this extract, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel declares himself a follower of Freud, and presents his own work as a development of Freud’s ideas. Stekel, however, differs significantly from Freud in a number of ways (Garber 1995). While Freud cautiously develops a conception of bisexuality which is nuanced to the point of mysteriousness, Stekel boldly asserts that everyone is innately bisexual and that monosexuality-exclusive heterosexuality or homosexualityis unnatural.
