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The other area barely outlined by Freud in the discussions of the [[Vienna]] [[Psychoanalytical]] [[Society]] is that of the passage from [[autoeroticism]] to narcissism: "In general, man has two original sexual [[objects]] and his later life depends on the one upon which he remains fixated. These two sexual objects are, for each [[individual]], the [[woman]] (the mother, the [[children]]'s nurse, etc.) and his own person. It is a question of getting rid of both of [[them]] and not lingering over them. One's own person is the one which, most often, is replaced by the father; the latter soon enters the hostile [[position]]. Homosexuality bifurcates at this point. The homosexual is unable to detach himself from himself so soon" (1914c). This heavily significant [[appearance]] of the father-[[figure]] was not followed up in the etiology of masculine homosexuality but it was later to be found in the [[analysis]] of [[male]] [[paranoia]] (the [[Schreber]] [[case]], reported in "[[Psycho]]-[[Analytic]] [[Notes]] on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia [[[Dementia]] Paranoides]": 1911c [1910]), in which a pathological [[defense]] against homosexuality develops, though the [[role]] of the father is never specified. Is he an [[agent]] of [[culture]] because he brandishes [[castration]] in the [[name]] of the law that forbids [[masturbation]] and the mother? Might he not also fill a role as seducer?

Homosexuality in [[women]] would remain less well explored ("The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman," 1920a), because the transposition of the etiological formula for men—specifically, excessive love for the father—often works less well.