ends." Moll (_Kontraere Sexualempfindung_, 1889, pp. 6 and 356)
does not think it proved that a stage of undifferentiated sexual
feeling always occurs, although we have to recognize that it is
of frequent occurrence. In his later work (1909, _Das Sexualleben
des Kindes_, English translation, _The Sexual Life of the Child_,
ch. iv), Moll remains of the same opinion that a homosexual
tendency is very frequent in normal children, whose later
development is quite normal; it begins between the ages of 7 and
10 (or even at 5) and may last to 20.

In recent years Freud has accepted and developed the conception
of the homosexual strain; as normal in early life. Thus, in 1905,
in his "Bruchstueck einer Hysterie-Analyse" (reprinted in the
second series of _Sammlung Kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre_,
1909), Freud regards it as a well-known fact that boys and girls
at puberty normally show plain signs of the existence of a
homosexual tendency. Under favorable circumstances this tendency
is overcome, but when a happy heterosexual love is not
established it remains liable to reappear under the influence of
an appropriate stimulus. In the neurotic these homosexual germs
are more highly developed. "I have never carried through any
psychoanalysis of a man or a woman," Freud states, "without
discovering a very significant homosexual tendency." Ferenczi,
again (_Jahrbuch fuer Psychoanalytische Forschungen_, Bd. iii,
1911, p. 119), without reference to any physical basis of the
impulse, accepts "the psychic capacity of the child to direct his
originally objectless eroticism to one or both sexes," and terms
this disposition _ambisexuality_. The normality of a homosexual
element in early life may be said to be accepted by most
psychoanalysts, even of the schools that are separated from
Freud. Stekel would go farther, and regards various psychic
sexual anomalies as signs of a concealed bisexual tendency;
psychic impotence, the admiration of men for masculine women and
of women for feminine men, various forms of fetichism,--they are
all masks of homosexuality (Stekel, _Zentralblatt fuer
Psychoanalyse_, vol. ii, April, 1912).

These schoolboy affections and passions arise, to a large extent,
spontaneously, with the evolution of the sexual emotions, though the
method of manifestation may be a matter of exam