ABSTRACT
Felix Deutsch had one exceptionally intimate male friendship that had started when both boys were five or six. Paul Bamay, one of the two witnesses at the wedding of Helene and Felix, was already a well-known actor, director, and theater manager. In an unpublished paper that Helene gave before a psychoanalytic audience in December 1965, she wrote a paragraph about Paul that would have been hard for her to deliver if Felix had still been alive; Felix might have been annoyed at her scientific use of his great friend. In late 1912 Felix, on behalf of himself and Helene, sent Paul and his wife Lina a Christmas telegram. Paul and Lina came to Vienna for two weeks early in June 1914, and invited Felix and Helene to join them in the Austrian Alps. The homosexuality between Felix and Paul was only one component of their friendship for each other.
