The important thing is that there arises in the child’s soul a wish which gravitates in the direction of the parallelogram of forces exhibited within the family circle. If the mother plays the upper rôle, the wish becomes: _I should like to be like mother! I should like to dominate and rule as she does!_ Love for the mother increases this tendency to become identified with her and turns it into a directive ideal. The child begins at a tender age to imitate its mother, acts womanly, wants to play with dolls and cook, wears gladly girls’ clothes. The child may overcome these tendencies or it may grow up with them or return to them later and become a pronounced homosexual. (_Late Homosexuality._) For the sake of simplicity I am now speaking of boys. The same effect may be brought about when a brutal father trods down the mother, the child sees its mother suffer and comes to look upon his father as an abhorrent example. Under such circumstances the child’s “_will to power_” may turn into “_ethical will_.” The child’s wish then is: _I would not rule and be like father; I would rather be like mother!_ If the child loves his tyrannical father he may become homosexual and passive: a woman and a strong man. These are a few examples taken at random from life. I have brought them out, because one often hears that homosexuals have had an energetic mother, and a father who played a submissive rôle. Of course, the contrary may also be the case. Frequently we hear that the mother was strongly neurotic.... There are no definite rules in the psychogenesis of homosexuality. Each case requires an individual solution. That is why _Sadger’s_ statements on the subject cannot be taken as absolute axioms. Every third case or so disproves his notions. _Many paths lead to homosexuality._ It would be impossible to describe all. We can only get at a few typical examples. We turn our attention now to the important question: what is the attitude of the neurotic towards his mother? We have seen that psychoanalysts correlate homosexuality to the repressed love for the mother. Let us give a glimpse at my few statistical data. The question: “Are you specially fond of your mother or your father? Or are you partial to some brother or sister?” was answered by my 20 homosexuals as follows: “Only of mother—mother—no particular preference—both alike—mother—father—no preference—on the whole, more fond of mother—love the whole family passionately—father—mother—my father mother—mother—mother—mother—specially fond of a brother (indifferent to all the others)—father—mother.”