n as a psychic and somatic development on
the basis of a latent bisexuality, was published in the
_Centralblatt fuer Nervenheilkunde und Psychiatrie_. Kurella (ib.,
May, 1890) adopted a somewhat similar view, even arguing that the
invert is a transitional form between the complete man or woman
and the hermaphrodite. In Germany a patient of Krafft-Ebing had
worked out the same idea, connecting inversion with fetal
bisexuality (eighth edition _Psychopathia Sexualis_, p. 227).
Krafft-Ebing himself at first simply asserted that, whether
congenital or acquired, there must be _Belastung_; inversion is a
"degenerate phenomenon," a functional sign of degeneration
(Krafft-Ebing, "Zur Erklaerung der contraeren Sexualempfindung,"
_Jahrbuch fuer Psychiatrie_, 1894). In the later editions of
_Psychopathia Sexualis_, however (1896 and onward and notably in
_Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol. iii, 1901), he went
farther, adopting the explanation on the lines of original
bisexuality (English translation of tenth edition, pp. 336-7). In
much the same language as I have used he argued that there has
been a struggle in the centers, homosexuality resulting when the
center antagonistic to that represented by the sexual gland
conquers, and psycho-sexual hermaphroditism resulting when both
centers are too weak to obtain victory, in either case such
disturbance not being a psychic degeneration or disease, but
simply an anomaly comparable to a malformation and quite
consonant with psychic health. This is the view now widely
accepted by investigators of sexual inversion. (Much material
bearing on the history of this conception has been brought
together by Hirschfeld, in _Die Homosexualitaet_, ch. xix, and
previously in "Vom Wesen der Liebe," _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle
Zwischenstufen_, vol. viii, 1906, pp. 111-133.)

A similar or allied view is now constantly met with in writers of
scientific authority who are only incidentally concerned with the
study of sexual inversion. Thus Halban ("Die Entstehung des
Geschlechtscharaktere," _Archiv fuer Gynaekologie_, 1903) regards
hermaphroditism, which he would extend to the psychic sphere, as
a state in which a double sexual impulse determines the course of
fetal and later development. Shattock and Seligmann ("True
Hermaphroditism in the Domestic Fowl,