![]() I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. Freud, who believed that all humans are attracted to both sexes in some capacity, responded with the following letter of advice.” In 1935, says that post, Freud “ was contacted by a worried mother who was seeking treatment for her son’s apparent homosexuality. ![]() But the letter above, featured at Letters of Note, demonstrates that, at least on the issue of homosexuality, he had indeed drawn a correct conclusion well before most anyone else. Perhaps, like many universally recognized 20th-century figures, he combined rightness and wrongness in some kind of irresistible proportion. Despite publishing such very real and still reasonably well-known works as The Interpretation of Dreams, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and Civilization and its Discontents, the man has somehow passed partially into the realm of popular myth: we think of him at once as an influential pioneer in a little-explored intellectual field, and as something of an idée fixe-hobbled charlatan as well. ![]() We think, in other words, of Sigmund Freud, whether we know anything about him or not. Hank Green, hosting his Crash Course on Psychology, put it best: when we think of the study of the mind, we think of an old, bespectacled bearded man puffing on a pipe.
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