Homo-sexual lifeFielding, William J. (William John)
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Homo-sexual life
Fielding, William J. (William John)
Homosexuality; Sex (Psychology)
Among males, he classifies the normal man as the “Dioning,” and the
invert as the “Urning.”[1] Urnings are subdivided into several groups.
First, those who are thoroughly manly in appearance and mental habit
and character (“Mannlings”) and who tend to love softer and younger
specimens of their own sex; second, those who are effeminate in
appearance and cast of mind (“Weiblings”), who love rougher and older
men; third, those who are of medium type (“Zwischen Urnings”) and love
young men.
[1] From _Uranos_, heaven; his idea being that the Uranian love was of
a higher order than the normal attachment.
Then there are “Urano-Dionings,” who have the capacity of love in both
directions, that is, for women and for men. These are generally of a
manly type.
Besides these there are some sub-species, such as the “Uraniaster,” who
is a normal man who has acquired the urning habit; and the “Virilized
Urning,” who is an Urning who has gotten the normal habit, although,
according to Ulrichs’ classification, this is not really natural to him.
A better conception of the whole arrangement may be obtained from the
following table:
{ (a) Normal Man or Dioning--called
{ Uraniaster when he acquires
{ Urning tendencies.
{ { 1. Mannling.
The { { 2. Zwischen-Urning.
Human { (b) Urning { 3. Weibling.
Male { { 4. Also called Virilized
{ { Urning when he
{ { acquires the normal
{ { habit.
{ (c) Urano-dioning.
Edward Carpenter states that if we add to this a corresponding table
for the female, we shall have an idea of the complication of Ulrichs’
system! Yet, complex as it is, and whatever criticisms we may make upon
it, we must allow that it does not exceed the complexity of the real
facts of Nature.
As we observe from the foregoing, there are many and conflicting ideas
regarding homosexuality, but I believe no concept of this phenomenon is
so satisfactory as that based on psychoanalytical data, as developed
from the teachings of Freud.
Taking into consideration the findings of all the analysts, it seems to
me that Stekel’s conception of the problem, summarized as follows, is
pre-eminently the most logical and valid:
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