Is freud a hero to the gay rights movement or was he rabidly homophobic? 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 His theory of the oedipal complex, however, held that the heterosexual outcome was the normal resolution, while t … Increasingly freud was pushed to cure homosexuals from their orientation by eager families Freud instead found that psychoanalysis had its limits. The origins of sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic theory
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