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 … Freud eventually signed a petition in 1930 to decriminalize homosexuality in germany and austria After freud died, psychoanalysis continued in america with the disease mentality towards homosexuals, which justified discrimination and abuse, until the later part of the 20th century. Sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic research on human sexuality helped set the standards on psychosexual study in the twentieth century Unfortunately, his views on homosexuality became distorted in the 1950s when psychoanalysts and psychiatrists used his methods of therapy but ignored his conclusions on homosexuality and sexual nature itself.
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