[13] Here one often sees that at first a normal sexual stream begins at the age of puberty, but owing to its inner weakness it breaks down at the first outer hindrance and then changes from regression, to perverse fixation.
[14] That keen observer of human nature, E. Zola, describes a girl in his book, La Joie de vivre, who in cheerful self renunciation offers all she has in possession or expectation, her fortune and her life's hopes to those she loves without thought of return. The childhood of this girl was dominated by an insatiable desire for love which whenever she was depreciated caused her to merge into a fit of cruelty.
[15] It is possible that the heightened adhesion is only the result of a special intensive somatic sexual manifestation of former years.
Aberrations (see Perversions) a fragment of inhibited development, 89 Sexual, 1, 13, 14 shown by the psychoneurotic, 29 with animals, 13
Absolute Inversion (sexual object of the same sex), 2
Activity and Passivity in sexual aim in exhibitionism, 21 of Sadism and Masochism, 23 precursors and masculine and feminine, 59
Adhesion, heightened, or fixedness of impressions of sexual life, 99 may be only result of a special intensive somatic sexual manifestation of former years, 99
Affective Processes, 64 pathogenic action of, 64 value of unconscious thought formation, 27
Aggression, Sadism and Masochism not attributable to mixture of, 24 taint of, shown by sexuality of most men, 22
Agoraphobia and neurotic disturbances of walking, 64, note 22
Aims of impulses distinguish them from one another, 31
Alkaloids, introduction of, analogous in neuroses and phenomena of intoxication and abstinence, 76
Amnesia, Infantile, 37 connected with infantile sexual activity, 51 and hysterical compared, 39
Anal Erotic, 10, note 11 Zone, activity of, 47 erogenous significance of, 48 masturbatic irritation of, 49
Anesthesia, causes of, are partly psychic, 81 continuance of, caused by retention of clitoris excitability, 81 of newly married women, 80 of wives due to parent complex, 85 of women often only apparent and local, 81 of women only at vaginal entrance, 81
Anus (see also Anal) as aim of inverts, 12; 17 especially frequent example of transgression, 29 part played by erogenous zone in, 32