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On the basis of many facts, such as his behaviour in analysis, his attraction to his father's penis and other recollections, we assume that he had felt attracted to the father even before the circumcision. Circumcision increased the homosexual drive, but as a result of its frustration, he increased his sexual wishes to his brother.<br>…<br>The end of his analysis produced in him the attitude he had felt in childhood toward his circumcision, namely, that he was prepared to accept the loss of his foreskin, if by this loss he would become equal to his father and be permitted to play with him sexually.<br>…<br>We may, therefore, conclude that the patient felt homosexually tied to his father (the doctor) by the circumcision. Does that mean that he could not finish his analysis until he regained his foreskin? I may add, in anticipation of further material that he hoped through undoing of the circumcision to free himself from his homosexual ties and become heterosexual again.<ref name="nunberg1947">{{REFjournal |last= Nunberg |init=H |author-link=Herman Nunberg |url=https://pep-web.org/search/document/IJP.028.0145A |title=Circumcision and problems of bisexuality |journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis |date=1947-01-01 |volume=28 |issue= |pages=145-79 |pubmedID=12994301 |accessdate=2023-10-04}}</ref>