Approximately one-half confess a greater fondness for the mother. I have mentioned the preferences in these cases because in one of them, at least, I am able positively to prove that back of love for the mother is hidden really a powerful aversion against the father; another subject had failed to mention his fondness for his sister which played a tremendous rôle in the development of his homosexuality. Such a statistical inquiry really requires documentation through psychoanalysis. But even on the face of the statistical figures we find a certain percentage of cases showing a greater fondness for the mother. This is also true of some of the cases in which the predominant love had been declared in favor of the father. _Hirschfeld_ holds that the attachment of the urning to his mother is a common occurrence. He states: “The homosexual is attracted to one woman with particular tenderness; _this is his mother_; and here we also find the analogy of a particularly intimate relationship between the urning daughter and her father. The homosexual’s attachment to his mother is so typical, that the _Freudian_ school has described this mother-complex as the cause of homosexuality. _I hold this deduction for a false one._ The homosexual does not become an urning because he was so passionately attached to his mother as a child; on the contrary, he leans towards the mother instinctively rather than knowingly, at first, this being the direction of his weakness and peculiarity and often his mother, also instinctively, makes him her favorite child....” This conclusion of _Hirschfeld’s_ I find myself unable to accept. The urning is often the mother’s favorite child before his birth. The child responds with the most tender love for his mother with whom he identifies himself in the end. Sometimes the mother wishes a girl and brings up her boy as one. I know one urning who was never dressed in pantelets by his mother, who was always kept by her side and whose mother was in the habit of folding his external genital over with his skin, saying: _you are a girl_! Even as a grown up boy he was frequently put in girl’s clothes and he preserved for some time a tendency to transvestism. Undoubtedly there are many cases, in which direct love for the mother has absorbed all love for the female sex. One urning, for instance, as quoted by _Hirschfeld_, states: