Here _Bloch_ has come close to a solution of the problem having plainly adopted the view developed later by _Adler_, who traces homosexuality to the fear of the sexual partner. Unfortunately he has failed to draw the further inferences which this excellent observation is capable of yielding. _Hate, fear, disgust and shame are the inhibitions which keep the homosexual away from the sexual partner._ Let us examine first the feeling of disgust. How does the feeling arise? In my study of _Anxiety States_ I have explained this matter more fully. But there is a form of disgust whose action is positive. Disgust need not always be necessarily repressed desire. If I should see today a woman covered all over with furuncles it may inspire me with disgust to hear that she is an old aunt whom I must greet with a kiss. In a case of this kind only the super-analyst in his folly might be able to discover suppressed components of the libido. But we do know that occasionally homosexuality may be aroused through episodes which enlist the negative reactions (hate, fear, disgust, shame). These revulsive effects then protect the individual against their own positive tendencies. Disgust covers craving, hate covers love, fear covers longing; and shame—boldness. But indulgence in alcohol is capable of turning revulsive effects into positive. Disgust is turned into desire, hate into love, fear into longing and shame turns into daring. If the fearful, repressed sadism is also added to this transformation of the negative into positive affects, when it cannot be sublimated into lasting love, the moral man is turned into a criminal who represents but a stage in the development of the human race. VI May Disgust Produce the Homosexual Attitude? Cases by Krafft-Ebing, Fleischmann, Liemcke—Observation (personal) and Case by Bloch.—Late Trauma as Cause of Homosexuality—Personal Observation of a case of Late Homosexuality—Two Cases of Bloch—Further Discussion of the Problem—A Case of Pfister’s with the Analysis of several Dreams.