that is why

That is why Proust, the first to deny all oedipalizing

interpretations of his own interpretations, contrasts two kinds of homosexuality,

or rather two regions only one of which is Oedipal, exclusive, and depressive, the

other being anoedipal schizoid, included, and inclusive:

"For some, doubtless

those whose childhoods were timid, the material kind of pleasure they take does

not matter, so long as they can relate it to a male countenance. While others,

whose sensuality is doubtless more violent, give their material pleasure certain

imperious localizations. The second group would shock most people by their

avowals.

They live perhaps less exclusively under Saturn's satellite, for in their

case women are not entirely excluded. . . . But those in the second group seek out

women who prefer women, women who suggest young men . . . indeed, they can

take, with such women, the same pleasure as with a man. . . .

For in their

relations with women, they play—for the woman who prefers women—the role

of another woman, and at the same time a woman offers them approximately

what they find in a man."

A/o_70