TY - JOUR
AU - Salzman, Leon
AB - Summary An examination of the concept of latent homosexuality reveals it to have played a vital role in the theory of personality development. However, it is a concept that becomes meaningless outside of the libido theory, since it connotes dormancy rather than potentiality. As a dormancy concept, it requires us to accept the bisexual theory of sexual development as the explanation for the development of homosexuality. A concept involving dormancy is valid in scientific work if there is ample, validated evidence of the pre-existing state which can arise, fully developed under certain stimuli. The necessary and sufficient data for this concept have never been presented, and alternative explanations prove to be more adequate and capable of validation. Since homosexuality is a potentiality in all human beings under certain developmental conditions, so a special concept is required, except the notion of a dynamic theory of personality development. Consequently, we need either to revise our notions about latent homosexuality or else define it more precisely in order to make it a useful, meaningful concept in personality theory.
TI - The concept of latent homosexuality
JF - The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
DO - 10.1007/BF01875313
DA - 1957-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-concept-of-latent-homosexuality-rEPg6ZaITq
SP - 161
EP - 169
VL - 17
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -