Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

desire

• We have assumed a too close connection between the sexual impulse and the sexual object — the impulse itself is first independent, then attaches.

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• The psychic estimation embraces the whole body; the full faith of love becomes an important source of authority.

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embodiment

• The child seeks a pleasure already experienced and remembered — the first gratification at the mother's breast becomes the model.

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• Infantile sexual manifestation originates with a vital bodily function, is autoerotic, and its aim is under the control of an erogenous zone.

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self-and-identity

• The direction of the libido was determined by a definite experience of early childhood not retained in conscious memory but recoverable.

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• A tendency to all perversions might be demonstrated in the normal person — the polymorphous character of infantile sexuality is universal.

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