nces, therefore,--example at school, seduction,
disappointment in normal love,--all of them drawing the subject away from
the opposite sex and concentrating him on his own sex, are exciting causes
of inversion; but they require a favorable organic predisposition to act
on, while there are a large number of cases in which no exciting cause at
all can be found, but in which, from earliest childhood, the subject's
interest seems to be turned on his own sex, and continues to be so turned
throughout life.

At this point I conclude the analysis of the psychology of sexual
inversion as it presents itself to me. I have sought only to bring out the
more salient points, neglecting minor points, neglecting also those groups
of inverts who may be regarded as of secondary importance. The average
invert, moving in ordinary society, is a person of average general health,
though very frequently with hereditary relationships that are markedly
neurotic. He is usually the subject of a congenital predisposing
abnormality, or complexus of minor abnormalities, making it difficult or
impossible for him to feel sexual attraction to the opposite sex, and easy
to feel sexual attraction to his own sex. This abnormality either appears
spontaneously from the first, by development or arrest of development, or
it is called into activity by some accidental circumstance.

FOOTNOTES:

[225] See _passim, Jahrbuch fuer Psychoanalytische Forschungen,
Zentralblatt fuer Psychoanalyse_, and _Internationale Zeitschrift fuer
Aerztliche Psychoanalyse_; also Sadger, "Zur Aetiologie der Kontraeren
Sexualempfindung," _Medizinische Klinik_, 1909, No. 2.

[226] For an exposition of this by an able English representative of
Freudian doctrines, see Ernest Jones, "The Oedipus Complex As An
Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery," _American Journal of Psychology_,
January, 1910.

[227] The love of relations may be tinctured by all degrees of sexual
love, some of which are so faint and vague that they cannot be considered
unnatural or abnormal; it is misleading to term them incestuous. The
Russian novelist, Artzibascheff, in his _Sanine_ described a brother's
affection for his sister as thus touched with a perception of her sexual
charm (I refer to the French translation), and the book has consequently
been much abused as "incestuous," though the attitude described is very
pale and conventional compared to the romantic passion sung in Shelley's
_Laon and Cythna_, or the t