My theory of homosexuality thus links itself to the view of _Lombroso_. The homosexual, in the first place, is a recessive character. He shows a precocious development of an instinct which does not fit the requirements of culture; but biologically he stands nearer the aboriginal bisexual predisposition of mankind than the normal person who is typical of the current age. This conflict manifests itself in various over-compensations, so that the neurotic advances beyond his age and becomes a creator of the future. I must ask my readers to consult my works quoted above for further details on this subject. I have here merely stated in brief what may have a bearing on our present theme. The specially gifted, the artist, the criminal and the neurotic manifest the same characteristic: over-stressing of instinctive cravings. The criminal carries out his promptings, the artist sublimates them in his works (_Shakespeare_ conceived so many murders and that saved him from becoming a murderer ... states _Hebbel_) while the neurotic meets in them his unsolvable conflicts. He is the criminal without the criminal’s courage to commit asocial deeds. He is the Don Juan of phantasy, the Marquis de Sade of his own day dreams, the Jack the Ripper, without knowing it. These considerations justify the assumption that poets, artists and neurotics must show a precocious development of the instinctive cravings, particularly of the sexual. That is in fact the case. With regard to artists this is well known,[13] the fact has been repeatedly mentioned as typical of criminals and with regard to neurotics the analysts have been able to prove it again and again.