Sigmund Freud’s Letter Regarding Homosexuality

In a response to a worried mother’s inquiry about the sexuality of her son, Freud writes, “Homosexuality is … nothing to be ashamed of.” posted on November 21, 2012 at 12:52pm EST

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kevinw31 2 months ago

Just because Sigmund Freud is the Father of modern psychoanalysis doesn’t mean everything he says is true or even sane. He started something that has been refined to the form it is in today. In other terms the modern smart phone wasn’t just invented one day. Alexander Graham Bell invented the “phone” and we have refined and improved it to the rectangular piece of glass we all carry around in our pockets. Freud is Alexander Graham Bell not Steve Jobs.
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This is great and all, and I’m going to let you finish but Freud thought all lesbians had some type of penis envy and wanted to be dudes which is why they were gay.
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So what? Everyone should know that today. Freud was crazy, this doesn’t bring anything new to the table.
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Shut it wait500 you assclown.
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jumjimbo 5 months ago

Wonder if he did coke before or after writing.
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  before, after, and during. dont hate… everyone did coke at that time. :P
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jairoj 5 months ago

This man was brilliant’ like people have stated he got some stuff wrong, but in his defense he tackled things that no one had tried before.
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kefkai 5 months ago

So, wouldn’t this be an awkward letter to receive if the “sexual deviancy” his mother was concerned about was necrophilia.
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Bloory 5 months ago

There’s a label at the bottom that says “Dear Dr. Kinsey”
I assume that’s the Kinsey of the Kinsey report. Wonder what the deal is with that.
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- A.Leigh 5 months ago
  
  It seems like someone (maybe even the woman who wrote to Freud initially? it’s signed “from a grateful mother”) mailed this letter to Kinsey for him to look at. The story behind that might be interesting.
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  It’s mentioned in the link: “The letter was later passed on to Alfred Kinsey and reproduced in The American Journal of Psychiatry in 1951, hence the note attached to its foot.”
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Although I never wanted to kill my dad and screw my mom, this guy was a rather smart dude.
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  That’s Oedipus Rex, not Freud.
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This man was not always right. But he was not always wrong either. ;)
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