...from all ties to tenderness. Then the unfortunate victims are plunged into a hellish life on earth. "The erotic life of such people remains dissociated,...personified in art as heavenly and earthly (or animal) love."74 The fate of these unfortunates could not have been more painfully described: "Where such men...

...of people afflicted like this hence takes on the characteristic of a restriction in object choice: The sensual feeling that has remained active seeks only objects evoking no remainder of the incestuous persons forbidden to it; the impression made by someone who seems deserving...

...of the incest taboo and the disgust, shame, and morality that sanction it.39 The consequence is that the "sensual feeling that has remained active seeks...reminder of the incestuous persons forbidden to it" (207). Those who remind him of mother and sister, that is, women of his own (respectable) social class,...

...Special Type of Object Choice Made by Men," Freud commented on the result of this form of socialization: "A restriction has thus been laid upon the object-choice....of tenderness which remain erotically ineffectual. . . . Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love" (62). 2o. In...

...incestuous persons forbidden to it; the impression made by someone who seems deserving of high estimate leads, not to a sensual excitation, but to feelings...the same two that are personified in art as heavenly or earthly (or animal) love. Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot...

...but it is devoid of tenderness. Consequently, Freud says, a restriction is imposed on object choice. The sensual feeling that has remained active seeks...impression made by someone who seems deserving of high estimate leads, not to a sensual excitation, but to feelings of tenderness which remain erotically...