In developing his theory of male sexual preference, freud asserted that heterosexual as well as homosexual preferences required explanation, that neither could be assumed to be innate Sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic research on human sexuality helped set the standards on psychosexual study in the twentieth century His theory of the oedipal complex, however, held that the heterosexual outcome was the normal resolution, while t …
Sigmund Freud | HISTORY
Freud eventually signed a petition in 1930 to decriminalize homosexuality in germany and austria
After freud died, psychoanalysis continued in america with the disease mentality towards homosexuals, which justified discrimination and abuse, until the later part of the 20th century.
