The Homosexual Neuroses Author:Wilhelm Stekel General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: R. G. Badger Subjects: Sexual deviation Homosexuality Neuroses Paraphilias History / General Psychology / Human Sexuality Social Science / Gay Studies Social Science / Lesbian Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of t... more »he original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOLE OF THE FATHER AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY DISLIKE OF CHILDREN LETTER OF JEALOUSY OF THE FATHER A HOMOSEXUAL WHO HATES HIS MOTHER A BELOVED BOY AS THE IMAGO OF THE SISTER PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE WITHIN THE FAMILY CIRCLE FEAR OF THE CHILD A GIRL WHO HATES ALL CHILDREN DIFFERENTIATION FROM THE MOTHER. Wenn wir nun alles dieses uns vergegenwartigen und wohl erwagen so sehen wir die Paderastie zu alien Zeiten und in alien Ldndern auf eine weise auftreten, die gar weit entfernt ist von der, welche wir zuerst, als wir sie bloss an sich selbst betrach- teten, also a priori, vorausgesetzt hat ten. Nam- lich die ganzliche Allgemeinheit und beharrliche Unausrottbarkeit der Sache beiveist, dass sie irgendwie aus der menschlichen Natur selbst herausgeht; da sie nur aus diesem Grunde jederzeit and uberall unausbleiblich auftreten kann als Beleg zu dem naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurrent. -- Schopenhauer. Considering all that and taking everything carefully into account we find that pederasty has been manifest at all times and in all countries in a manner very unlike what we had at first presumed a priori, that is, by considering abstractly the subject. Precisely its complete universality and ir- radicable character everywhere shows that the thing somehow flows out of human nature itself; only in that way could it persist at all times and everywhere as an accompaniment to naturam expel...« less