Towards a Gay Communism by Mieli Mario;

Author:Mieli, Mario;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pluto Press

Jealousy, Masochism and Sadism;

The Homosexuality Within Heterosexuality

I already indicated in the first chapter the recognition by psychoanalysis of a veiled homoerotic desire in some mechanisms specific to so-called ‘normal’ jealousy (‘competitive’ jealousy, as Freud also described it): ‘That is to say, a man will not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival, but also grief about the man, whom he loves unconsciously, and hatred of the woman as his rival; and the latter set of feelings will add to the intensity of his jealousy.’19

It is particularly jealousy of the ‘delusional’ kind, which also contains elements of the two other types, ‘competitive’ and ‘projected’, that reveals most blatantly the homoerotic substrate that is common to all three:

It too has its origin in repressed impulses towards unfaithfulness; but the object in these cases is of the same sex as the subject. Delusional jealousy is what is left of a homosexuality that has run its course, and it rightly takes its position among the classical forms of paranoia. As an attempt at defence against an unduly strong homosexual impulse it may, in a man, be described in the formula: ‘I do not love him, she loves him!’20

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