 | Ronald Bayer - Psychology - 1987 - 264 pages
...his compassionate and now famous "Letter to an American Mother" of 1935 must be read. Dear Mrs. . . . I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual....this term yourself in your information about him. May \ question you, why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be... | |
 | Ernest Wallwork - Philosophy - 1991 - 364 pages
...famous, sympathetic letter to a despairing American mother who wrote to him for advice, Freud declares: I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual....the fact that you do not mention this term yourself. . . . Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation,... | |
 | Peter Conrad - Social Science - 2010 - 348 pages
...him regarding her son, Freud (1 935/ I960) summarized the major themes in his writing on the subject: I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am more impressed by the fact that you db not mention this term yourself in your information about him.... | |
 | Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 696 pages
...less cause for distress than she may think and none for embarrassment. "I gather," Freud says, ". . . that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed...yourself in your information about him. May I question you, why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of,... | |
 | Sandra L. Bem - Social Science - 1993 - 260 pages
...homosexuality was not the illness or the pathology that later psychoanalysts would try to make it. I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual....yourself in your information about him. May I question you, why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of,... | |
 | Stephen Barker - Social Science - 1996 - 190 pages
...later, when writing to an American mother, Freud offered her the Stoic comfort of historical antiquity: I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual....yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of,... | |
 | Francis Mark Mondimore - Social Science - 1996 - 314 pages
...written to him about her homosexual son: I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. 1 am most impressed by the fact that you do not mention...yourself in your information about him. May I question you, why do you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage but it is nothing to be ashamed of,... | |
 | Morris B. Kaplan - Law - 1997 - 310 pages
...Ametican Joucnal of Psychiatcy.tó Fteud concisely summatizes his views: Homosexuality is assutedly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degtadation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we considet it to be a vatiation of the sexual... | |
 | Timothy F. Murphy - Gay and lesbian studies - 2000 - 762 pages
...biography does reprint a famous letter Freud wrote to an American woman in 1935, in which he states that "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is...nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation." It also traces the origins of Freud's conception of homosexuality back to Wilhelm Fliess's idea of bisexuality.... | |
 | Steven Angelides - Psychology - 2001 - 292 pages
...oft-quoted "Letter to an American Mother," Freud further reinforced his view on the matter: Dear Mrs. I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual....yourself in your information about him. May I question you, why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of,... | |
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I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him. May I question you, why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is... 
