object; he
identifies himself with his mother and sees in the object of his
love his own youthful person. And what, Jekels asks, is the aim
of this mental arrangement? It can scarcely by other, he replies,
than in the part of the mother to stimulate the anal region of
the object which has now become himself, and to procure the same
pleasure which in childhood he experienced when his mother
satisfied his anal eroticism. Jekels regards this view as the
continuation and concretization of Freud's interpretation; and
the main point in homosexuality, even when apparently passive,
becomes the craving for anal-erotic satisfaction (L. Jekels,
"Einige Bemerkungen zur Trieblehre," _Internationale Zeitschrift
fuer Aerztliche Psychoanalyse_, Sept., 1913). Most psychoanalysts
are cautious in denying a constitutional or congenital basis to
inversion, though they leave it in the background. Ferenczi, in
an interesting attempt to classify the homosexual
(_Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Aerztliche Psychoanalyse_,
March, 1914), remarks: "Psychoanalytic investigation shows that
under the name of homosexuality the most various psychic states
are thrown together, on the one hand true constitutional
anomalies (inversion, or subject homoeroticism), on the other
hand psychoneurotic obsessional conditions (object homoeroticism,
or obsessional homoeroticism). The individual of the first kind
essentially feels himself a woman who wishes to be loved by a
man, while the other represents a neurotic flight from women
rather than sympathy to men." The constitutional basis is very
definitely accepted by Rudolf Ortvay who points out
(_Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Aerztliche Psychoanalyse_, Jan.,
1914) that the biological doctrine of recessives and dominants in
heredity helps to make clear the emergence or suppression of
homosexuality on a bisexual disposition. "Infantile events," he
adds, "which, according to Freud, decide the sexual relations of
adults, can only exert their operation on the foundation of an
organic predisposition, infantile impressions being determined by
hereditary predisposition." Isador Coriat, on the other hand,
while recognizing two forms of inversion, incomplete and
complete, boldly asserts that it is never congenital and never
transmitted through heredity; it is always "originated