Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Chapter 11
Inverts, behavior of, 2; 3 psychic manliness in, 8 sexual object of, 10 aim of, 12
Investigation, infantile sexual, 55 conducted alone, 58 is first step at independent orientation, 58 causes estrangement from persons, 58
Itching, feeling of, projected into peripheral erogenous zone, 47
Kiernan, 7
Kinderfehler, Die (periodical), 37, note 2
Kissing (see Mouth, Oral) as perversion, 15 habitual, in former thumbsuckers, 44 in female inverts, 12
Knowledge, desire for, coöperates with energy of desire for looking, 56 not wholly sexual, 55 relations to sexual life of particular importance to, 56
Krafft-Ebing, 1, note 1; 9, and note 11; 22; 23 weakness of his description of sexual process, 75
Latency Period, Sexual in Childhood, 39; 40 interruptions of, 41
Leading Zone in man and woman, 80 in female child is the clitoris, 80
Libido as term for sexual feeling corresponding to hunger, 1 of inverts, 3 direction of, determined by experience in early childhood, 6 attachment of, to persons of same sex, 10, note 11 fixation of, on hypnotizer, 15, note 14 amount of directed to artistic aim, 21 aggressive factor of, in sadism, 23 strivings of, transformed into symptoms, 28 fixation of, on persons of same sex, 29 union of cruelty with, in neurotics and paranoiacs, 30 of psychoneurotics unable to obtain normal sexual gratification, 33 of children in corporal punishment, 55 tension of, dies away at orgasm, 71 sometimes escapes injury in castration, 75 Theory of, 77 a force of variable quantity capable of measuring sexual processes, 77 a concept auxiliary to chemical theory, 77 energy has a qualitative character, 77 has special chemism different from nutritional processes, 77 quantum psychically represented by ego-libido, 77 production, increase, distribution and displacement of the Ego-, explains psychosexual phenomena, 77 accessibility of the Ego- to psychoanalysis, 77 the Ego- becomes Object-Libido, 77 fate of the Object- is to be withdrawn from the object, 77 is to be preserved floating in special states of tension, 77 is to be finally taken back into the Ego, 77 The Ego- is called the narcissistic Libido, 78 greater significance of, in psychotic disturbances, 78 is regularly of a masculine character in man and woman, 79 the object of may be either man or woman, 79 of child, when ungratified is changed into fear, 84 suppressed, of love of child to parents, 84 infantile fixation of, causes sexual love for parents, 86 girls conceal, under affection for family, 86 return of, to persons preferred in infancy, 86 incestuous fixation of, not completely escaped, 86
Lindner, 42; 43
Lingering at intermediary relations, 15; 20 at preparatory act of sexual process is mechanism of many perversions, 73
Lip as erogenous zone, 44 sexual utilization of mucous membrane of, 16 sucking of, 42 zone is responsible for sexual gratification during eating, 66
Loathing, feeling of, protects individual from improper sexual aims, 16; 17 overcoming of, at sight of excretion, produces voyeurs, 21 and Shame in Masochism, 23 in Inversions, 25 as psychic force inhibiting sexual life, 40
Looking (see Peeping, Voyeurs) as addition to normal sexual process, 14 Lingering at Touching and, 20 as a perversion, 21 and exhibition mania, the eye an erogenous zone in, 32 as component of infantile sexual life with others as object, 53
Love, omnipotence of, 25 and hate, 30 temporary renouncement of, in child, 83 smaller amount of, than mother love to satisfy individual in later life, 83 non-sexual and sexual, for parents, nourished from same source, 86 sexual, corresponds to an infantile fixation of the Libido, 86 -life, peculiarities of, understood only through childhood, 87, note 11
Löwenfeld, 1, note 1
Lydston, F., 7
Magnan's classification, 4
Man (see Bisexuality, Masculine and Feminine) sexual development of, more consistent and easier to understand, 68 differentiation between, and woman, 78
Masculine and feminine, 79 as activity and passivity, 79, note 4 biological significance of, permits clearest determination, 79 note 4 in sociological sense, 79, note 4 no pure, in either biological or sociological sense, 79, note 4
Masochism, in relation between hypnotized and hypnotist, 15, note 14 and Sadism, 21 originates through transformation from Sadism, 22 and Sadism occupy special place among perversions, 23 reinforced by Sadism in exhibitionism, 30 source of, in painful irritation of gluteal region, 55 -Sadism impulse rooted in erogenous action of pain, 65
Mastery, impulse to, foreshadowed in boys' masturbation, 50 source of cruelty in children, 54 supplies activity, 59
Masturbatic sexual manifestations, 47 excitation of anal zone, 49 irritation of anal zone, 49 sexual manifestations have same male character in boy and girl, 79
Masturbation frequently the exclusive aim in inversion, 12 in small children, 36 thumb-sucking and, 43 infantile, has three phases, 50 return of, 51 in little girls concerns clitoris only, 80
Mechanical excitation, 62
Memory traces preponderate over recent impressions in causation of neuroses, 99
Moebius, 1, note 1; 4, note 6; 34
Moll, 1, note 1; 32; 37, note 1
Morality as a psychic dam, 41
Mother, fixation on, in inverts, 11, note 12 image helps males avert inversions, 88 image helps females avert inversions, 88
Motion, pleasure of, sexual in nature, 64, note 22
Mouth (see Lip, Oral) Sexual Utilization of Mucous Membrane of Lips and, 16 as a frequent example of transgression, 29 as an erogenous zone, 31
Muscular activity, pleasure from, 63
Narcissism in object selection, 10, note 11 as identification with mother, 12, note 12
Narcissistic Libido a name for Ego-Libido, 78 a reservoir of energy for investment of object, 78 investment of ego a realized primitive state, 78
Nausea on railroads, 63
Neurosis and perversion, 28 the negative of a perversion, 29; 89 intestinal catarrh in, 48 symptomatology of, traced to disturbance of sexual processes, 67 a factor in the causation of, is preponderance of memory traces, 99
Neurotics and children compared, 38 infantile reminiscences in, 40 scatologic customs of, 49 diseases, disposition for, awakened by over tender parents, 83 have nearer ways than tenderness to transfer their disturbances to their children, 38 fixedness of impressions of sexual life in, 99
Nursing Period, Sexual Object of, 82
Object finding, 81 is consummated on psychic side at anatomical puberty, 81 is really a re-finding (of the mother), 82 two paths of, shown by psychoanalysis, 82, note 5 selection must avoid beloved person of infancy, 84 first accomplished in imagination, 85 incestuous, significant in psychosexual disturbances, 86 after effects of infantile, 86 follows prototypes of parents, 86
Obsessions explained only through psychoanalysis, 26
Occasional inversion, 2
Oedipus Complex, 85
Onanism (see Masturbation) mutual, not producing inversion, 6 infantile, almost universal, 50 unusual techniques in, show prohibition overcome, 50, note 15 infantile, disappears soon, 50 connected by conscience-stricken neurotics with their neurosis, 51, note 16 gratification in infantile masturbation, 51 early active, as determinant of pollution-like process, 51
Opposite Influences, Paths of, 66
Oral (see Lip, Mouth) pregenital sexual organization, 59
Organizations, Pregenital, 54; 58
Orgasm, thumb-sucking leading to, 43
Overestimation of the Sexual Object, 15
Overwork, nervous disturbances of mental, caused by simultaneous sexual excitement, 65
Pain ranks with loathing and shame, 23
Pain sought by many persons, 64 toned down has erogenous action, 65 a factor in sexual excitement, 65
Paranoia, knowledge of sexual impulse in, gained only through psychoanalysis, 26 delusional fears in, based on perversions, 29, note 25 union of cruelty with libido in, 30 significance of erogenous zones in, 32
Parent complex, 15, note 14 strongest in girls, 85 result of boundless tenderness of parents, 83
Partial desires, 29 impulses and erogenous zones, 31; 34; 53; 59 show passive form in girls, 79
Passivity (see Activity) sexual aim present in exhibitionism in active and passive form, 21 active and passive forms of Sadism-Masochism, 23
Pedicatio, 17
Peeping (see Exhibitionism, Looking, Voyeurs) as perversion, 21 force opposed to, is shame, 21 mania, partial desires as carriers of, 30 as strongest motive power for formation of neurotic symptoms, 54
Penis, envy of in girls, 37 erection of, the somatic sign of sexual excitation, 69
Pérez, 37, note 2
Perversions, as additions to normal sexual processes, 14 brought into relation with normal sexual life, 15 mouth as sexual organ in, 16 Sadism-Masochism the most significant of, 22 general statements applicable to, 24 exclusiveness and fixation of, 25 psychic participation in, 25 and neurosis, 28; 29 fetichisms as, 30 positive, 31 preponderance of sexual, in psychoneuroses, 32 sexual impulse of psychoneurotics possesses unusual tendency to, 33 relation of predisposition to, and morbid picture, 34 formation of, 52 of prostitutes, 53 part played in, by castration complex, 22 mechanism of many, represents a lingering at a preparatory act, 73 the neuroses the negative of the, 89 disposition to, universal, 89 as inhibitions and dissociations from normal development, 89 negative appearing in neurosis, 89, note 12 positive and negative in the same family, 94 resulting from the strongest of other sexual components, 94 of childhood as source of some virtues, 96
Phantasies the only escape of the maturing youth, 85 of the individual in struggle with incest temptation, 85, note 9 of all persons contain infantile inclinations, 85 distinctly incestuous, rejected, 85
Pleasure sucking, 42; 43 relation of feeling of, to unpleasant tension, 70 relations of, the weakest spot in present day psychology, 70 the last, of sexual acts differs earlier pleasures, 71 produced through discharge, 71 is altogether gratification pleasure, 71 nature of, more deeply entered into in the study of wit, 72
Pollution, process similar to, in infancy, 51 caused by strong excitements in children, 64 nocturnal, due to accumulation of semen, 74
Polymorphous-perverse disposition, 52
Precursory Sexual Aims, 20
Predisposition, bisexual, 9
Pregenital organization as phase of sexual life, 54; 58 phase of organization of sexual life, 59 sadistic-anal, 59 organizations, assumption of, based on analysis of neuroses, 60
Prematurity, spontaneous sexual, a factor influential for sexual development, 97 shown in breaking through, shortening or suspending of infantile latency period, 97 becomes cause of disturbances in provoking sexual manifestations having character of perversions, 97 sexual, runs parallel with intellectual prematurity, 98
Prevention of inversion, 87
Primacy of the Genitals, 50; 69 attained at puberty, 68 already sketched out in infantile life, 73 for propagation, the last phase of sexual organization, 60
Primitive Psychic Mechanisms, 10, note 11
Prostitute fitted for her activity by polymorphous-perverse disposition, 53
Psychic participation in perversions, 25 life one of three stimuli of sexual apparatus, 69 sign of sexual excitation a feeling of tension, 69 accomplishment of puberty is breaking away from parental authority, 85
Psychoanalysis, cures by, 3 of homosexuals, 10, note 11 reveals psychic mechanism of genesis of inversion, 11, note 12
Psychoanalysis, 26 shows early intimidation from normal sexual aims, 18, note 17 explains fetichism, 20, note 19 reduces bisexuality to activity and passivity, 24 reduces symptoms of hysteria, 27 unconscious phantasies revealed by, 29, note 25 of thumb-sucking, 43 of anal zone, 47 brings forgotten material to consciousness, 51 of infantile sexuality, 55, note 19 and inquisitiveness of children, 56 and pregenital organizations, 58 and tenderness of sexual life, 61 novelty of, 66 of transference psychoses, 77 gives at present definite information only about transformations of object-libido, 78 cannot distinguish ego-libido from other effective energies, 78 shows two paths of object finding, 82, note 5 shows individual struggle with incest temptations, 85, note 9 positive perversions accessible to therapy of, 90, note 12
Psychoneuroses based on sexual motive powers, 26 associated with manifest inversions, 29, note 26 traces of all perversions in, 30 significance of erogenous zones in, 32 preponderance of special erogenous zones in, 34
Psychoneurotics, sexual life of, explained only through psychoanalysis, 26 Sexual Activities of, 27 disease of, appears after puberty, 33 constitution of, tendency to inversions in, 34 sexuality of preserves infantile character, 39
Psychosexual hermaphrodites show indifference to which sex their object belongs, 2 not paralleled by other psychic qualities, 8 phenomena explained by nature of ego-libido, 77 development, disturbances of, show incestuous object selection, 86
Puberty not the time of the beginning of the sexual impulse, 1; 36 relation of, to inversion, 3 definite sexual behavior not determined till after, 10, note 11 Transformations of, 68 most striking process of, the growth of the genitals, 69
Railroad activities, sexual element in, 62
Reaction formation, 40 and sublimation two diverse processes, 41 feelings of, 41 formation begins in latency period, 95
Reading as source of sexual excitement through fear, 64
Regression appears in sex development of woman, 68 produced by factors injuring sexual development, 97
Repression of certain powerful components, 94 not a suspension, 95 result of, an almost normal sexual life, 95
Repression, inner determinations of, unknown, 96 effect of, cannot be made retrogressive, 98 a special process cutting off conscious discharge of wishes, 27
Repression of heterosexual feeling in psychoneurosis, 29, note 26 Sadism resulting from shows masochistic tendencies, 30 immense amount, in inverts, 33 congenital roots of sexual impulse undergo insufficient, 35 of impressions of childhood, 38 sexual, greater in girl, 79 new wave of, distinguishes puberty of girl, 80 determines psychic causes of anesthesia, 81 of puberty determines woman's preference for neuroses, 81 a new, required, abolishing a piece of infantile masculinity, 92
Resistances, shame, loathing, fear and pain as, 25
Rhythm in sucking analogous to tickling, 45 of mechanical shaking of the body produces sexual excitation, 62
Riddle of the Sphinx, 56
Rieger, C., 75
Rohleder, 47, note 13
Rousseau, J.J., 55
Sadger, J., 1
Sadism (see Masochism) and Masochism, 21 occupy special place among perversions, 23 conception of, fluctuates, 22 attributable to bisexuality, 24 resulting from repression paralleled by Masochism, 30 attributed by children to sexual act, 57 prevalence of, 60 -Masochism impulse, rooted in erogenous action of pain, 65
Sadistic-anal pregenital sexual organization, 59
Sadistic impulse from muscular activity, 64
Scatologic customs of neurotics, 49
Schrenk-Notzing, 1, note 1
Scott, 23
Secondary sex characteristics, 8
Seduction does not necessarily produce inverts, 6 treating child as a sexual object, 51 as outer cause of return of sexual activity in childhood, 51 not necessary to awaken sexual life of child, 52 does not explain original relations of sexual impulse, 53
Semen, rôle of, unknown to children, 58
Sex characteristics, Secondary and Tertiary, 8 culture and, 41
Sexual Aberrations, 1 a transition of variations of sexual impulse to the pathological, 19 act, theories of children as to, 57 activities, of psychoneurotics, 27 premature, of children, impair educability, 91 activities, infantile leave profoundest impressions, 50 aim abandoned in childhood, 40 at puberty different in the two sexes, 68 Deviation in Reference to, 14 distinction between, and sexual object, 1 Fixation of Precursory, 20 in man the discharge of the sexual products, 68 of infantile impulse, 46 of infantile sexuality, 45 of Inverts, 12 perversion may be substituted for, by normal person, 24 should be restricted to union of genitals, 16 apparatus, weakness of, 18 constitutions, diverse, 66 variation of, 93 contrary, 2 development of man easier to understand, than woman's, 68 disturbances, paths of, a means of sublimation, 67 serviceable in health, 67 excitation of nursing period, 51 is one result of three ways of stimulation of the sexual apparatus, 69 excitement originates (_a_) as imitation of a previous gratification, 61 (_b_) as a stimulation of erogenous zones, 61 (_c_) as the expression of some impulse, 61 sources of, tested by quality of stimulus, 65 inner sources of, 65 nature of, unfamiliar to us, 66 indirect source of, not equally strong in all persons, 66 influences availability of voluntary attention, 67 problem of, 73 normally ended only by discharge of semen, 74 independent of an accumulation of sexual substance, 75 furnished not only from so-called sexual parts, 77 intercourse between parents and child an inexhaustible source of, 82 gratification found by inverts in object of same sex, 3 impression, 5 Impulse, 1 acquired, 5 too close connection of, with object assumed, 12 entirely independent of its object, 13 most poorly controlled of all by higher psychic activities, 14 alone was extolled by the ancients, 14, note 13 Masochism in, causes unconscious fixation of libido on the hypnotist, 15, note 14 closely connected with cruelty, 23 the source of symptoms of neuroses, 27 perverse, converted expression of, 29 in psychoneuroses, 33 ignorance of essential features of, 36 becomes altruistic, 68 regularly becomes autoerotic, 81 not awakened, 82 of genitals reawakens, 50 primitive formation of, 42 inhibition, 40 inversion, 2 presupposes that sexual object is reverse of normal, 10 inverts, 1, note 1 investigation, infantile, 55 latency period, in childhood, 39 life of children, 40 shows components regarding others as sexual objects, 53 tender streams of, 61 normality of guaranteed by concurrence of two streams, 68 all disturbances of, as inhibitions of development, 69 development of, of children unimportant in lower stages of culture and important in higher, 99 love shown by children towards parents at an early date, 83 manifestations in childhood, exceptional, 39 the masturbatic, 47 object is the person from whom the sexual attraction emanates, 1 Deviation in Reference to the, 2 inaccessibility of, leads to occasional inversion, 3 of inverts, 10 male inverts look for real feminine psychic features in, 11 female active inverts look for femininity in, 12 the sexually immature and animals as, 13 emphasis placed by moderns on the, 14, note 13 lingering at intermediary relations to, one of the perversions, 15 object, overestimation of the, 15 unfit substitutes for, 18 selection in very young children, 55, note 19 found at puberty, 68 and aim concurrent in normal sexual life, 68 in mother's breast, 81 lost when infant forms general picture of person, 81 of nursing period, 82 organization, pregenital oral, 59 overestimation of, rises only when woman refuses, 80 process, motive power for, escapes in fore-pleasure, 72 rejection leaves in unconscious of neurotic the psychosexual activity for object finding, 86 satisfaction from muscular activity, 63 substance, rôle of, 74 symbolism of forms of motion, 63 tension loosened by copulation, 14 implies feeling of displeasure, 70 carries impulse to alter psychic situation, 70 appears even in infancy, 73 does not originate in pleasure, 74 and pleasure only indirectly connected, 74 a certain amount of, necessary for the excitability of the erogenous zones, 74 theories, infantile, are reproductions of child's sexual constitution, 57
Sexuality as the weak point of the otherwise normal, 14 infantilism of, 34 infantile factor in, 39 infantile, manifestations of, 42 sexual aim of infantile, 45 germinating, affecting children's behavior in school, 64 encroached upon by all intensive affective processes, 64 partial impulses of, 65 of eating, 66 ways between, and other functions traversible in both directions, 66 does not consist entirely in male germ glands, 75 of clitoris repressed in girl at puberty, 80
Sexuals, Contrary, 2
Shame is a force opposed to the peeping mania, 21 as a resistance opposed to the libido, 23, 25 as force acting as an inhibition on sexual life, 40
Shoe as a symbol of female genital, 19, note 18
Skin as erogenous zone, 32 as factor of sexual excitement, 65
Sleep caused by pleasure-sucking, 43
Smell desire, coprophilic, 20, note 19
Smoking, desire for in former thumb-suckers, 44
Sphinx, Riddle of, 56
Sports turn youth away from sexual activity, 64
Stimulus produced by isolated excitements coming from without, 31 outer, removing sensitiveness with gratification, 47 quality of, as criterion of sources of sexual excitement, 65 can set in motion complicated sexual apparatus, 69 affects the sexual apparatus in three ways, 69
Sublimation, artistic, 21 Reaction Formation and, 40 a deviation of sexual motive powers from sexual aims, 41 and reaction formation two diverse processes, 41, note 8 desire for knowledge corresponds to, 55 effected on paths by which sexual disturbances encroach upon other functions of the body, 67 makes possible a third issue in abnormal constitutional dispositions, 95 inner processes of, totally unknown, 96
Sucking, see Thumb-sucking,--
Symbolism of fetichism, 19, 20 sexual, of early childhood, 55, note 19
Symptomatology of neurotic determined by infantile sexual activity, 50 of pollution-like process, 51 of neuroses traced to disturbance of the sexual processes, 67 manifested in disturbances of other non-sexual bodily functions, 67
Symptoms, creators of, are unconscious forces, 89 of psychoneuroses are the sexual activities of the patient, 27
Syphilis in fathers of more than half the cases of hysteria, compulsion-neurosis, etc., treated by Freud, 93
Temperature sensitiveness, as result of distinct erogenous action, 62
Temporal Factors, 98
Tension, sexual, loosened by copulation, 14, 70 feeling of, 46 the psychic sign of sexual excitation, 69 unpleasant, relation of, to feeling of pleasure, 70 increase in changing to displeasure, 71 increased by functions of erogenous zones, 71 of libido dies away at orgasm, 71 too little, endangers attainment of sexual aim, 72
Tertiary sex characteristics, 8
Theatre as source of sexual excitement through fear, 64
Thumb-sucking as model of infantile sexual manifestations, 42 a sexual activity, 43 as remnant of oral phase of pregenital sexual organization, 59
Thyroid gland, rôle of, in sexuality, 76
Tickling analogous to rhythmic sucking, 45 demanding onanistic gratification, 51
Toe, sucking of, 42
Tongue, sucking of, 42
Touching as preliminary to sexual aim, 14 and looking, 20 hand as addition to attraction of sexual object, 70
Transference neuroses, 77 of erogenous excitability from clitoris to vagina, 81
Transformation of puberty, 68 success of, dependent on adjustment to dispositions and impulses, 68