Auchincloss E L, Vaughan S C
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA.
J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2001 Fall;49(4):1157-86. doi: 10.1177/00030651010490040301.
No need exists, it is argued, for a new psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality. Certainly psychoanalysis should not be expected to generate such a theory using its own methodology alone. The preoccupation with producing such a theory avoids more important questions about psychoanalytic theory building raised by an examination of the long relationship between psychoanalysis and homosexuality. These questions concern the problems related to using psychoanalytic methodology (1) to construct categories (including the categories normal and abnormal), (2) to construct causal theory (the problems include the limitations of psychoanalytic developmental theory and a long-standing confusion between psychoanalytic developmental theory, psychoanalytic genetic reconstruction, and psychodynamics), and (3) to identify "bedrock." Finally, the question is addressed of what might be needed that is new in the psychoanalytic approach to homosexuality.
有人认为，不需要一种新的关于同性恋的精神分析理论。当然，不能期望精神分析仅用其自身的方法就产生这样一种理论。专注于产生这样一种理论回避了一些更重要的问题，这些问题是通过审视精神分析与同性恋之间的长期关系而提出的关于精神分析理论构建的问题。这些问题涉及到使用精神分析方法的相关问题：（1）构建类别（包括正常和异常类别），（2）构建因果理论（问题包括精神分析发展理论的局限性以及精神分析发展理论、精神分析遗传重建和心理动力学之间长期存在的混淆），以及（3）确定“基石”。最后，探讨了在精神分析对同性恋的研究方法中可能需要哪些新的东西这一问题。
