Concept

Sexual orientation

Overview

enduring pattern of sexual attraction

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Psychoanalysis offers the means to fill this gap and to put to test the assertions of the homosexuals. It is true that psychoanalysis fulfilled this task in only a small number of people, but all investigation thus far undertaken brought the same surprising results.[39] In all our male homosexuals there was a very intensive erotic attachment to a feminine person, as a rule to the mother, which was manifest in the…
Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci
Close in meaning to Sexual orientation; the term itself is not named.
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A periodical fluctuation between the normal and the inverted sexual object has also been observed. Of special interest are those cases in which the libido changes, taking on the character of inversion after a painful experience with the normal sexual object.
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Close in meaning to Sexual orientation; the term itself is not named.
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The direction of the instinct is uncertain. One sex is attracted by the other; that is the impulse of nature. Choice, preferences, individual likings, are the work of reason, prejudice, and habit; time and knowledge are required to make us capable of love; we do not love without reasoning or prefer without comparison.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Close in meaning to Sexual orientation; the term itself is not named.
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