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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 49, No. 4, 1235-1267 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00030651010490042001

The Overstimulation of Everyday Life: I. New Aspects of Male Homosexuality

Sidney H. Phillips

Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis; Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Sidney.phillips{at}yale.edu

Western heterosexual culture surrounds the homosexually inclined boy in a climate of erotic overstimulation that powerfully affects his development and adult sexual adaptation. This assertion is illustrated through a case presentation of a homosexual man who shared a bed with his brother from childhood into adolescence. Analysis of the patient's transference enactment—repeatedly falling asleep on the couch—gradually revealed the psychic impact of this everyday overstimulation: the creation of a tantalized inner world of longing. The regular occurrence and developmental understanding of adolescent homosexual boys' unrequited love affairs with adolescent heterosexual boys are described and explored. Finally, the overstimulation of everyday life is proposed as a new model for understanding certain behavioral aspects of male homosexuality, such as the avoidance of rough-and-tumble play in childhood and homosexual cruising.


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