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Homosexuality

Homosexuality
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Overview

romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex

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  1. We are then faced by a picture the two aspects of which certain movements in literature take such delight in idealising. A man of this kind will show a sentimental enthusiasm for women whom he deeply respects but who do not excite him to sexual activities, and he will only be potent with other women whom he does not 'love' but thinks little of or even despises.[48] More often, however, the adolescent succeeds in…

    Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

    Close in meaning to Homosexuality; the term itself is not named.

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  2. As a matter of fact there would be no occasion for entering into the psychic genesis of the form of homosexuality studied by us if there were not a strong presumption that Leonardo, from whose vulture-phantasy we started, really belonged to this one type of homosexuality.

    Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci

    Names Homosexuality several times; opens on Homosexuality.

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  3. Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always looking for his other half. Men who are a section of that double nature which was once called Androgynous are lovers of women; adulterers are generally of this breed, and also adulterous women who lust after men: the women who are a section of the woman do not care for men, but have female attachments…

    Plato, Symposium

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Philosophers who discussed Homosexuality

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Place in the tradition

Part of Fascism.

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