placed by a condition that she cared more about and that was incompatible with motherhood. One of the things that helped her love for this lady grow was the fact that she reminded the girl of her older brother. This combination of the masculine with the feminine ideal combined also her fulfillment of both homosexual and heterosexuality. Freud found that all of this led to the conclusion that this switch to homosexuality stemmed mostly from her mother and her father. Her mother saw that her daughter was developing into a beautiful and younger competitor and favored her sons over her daughter. She kept her daughter’s independence limited as much as possible, and paid close attention to her daughter’s relationship with her husband. Meanwhile the girl was feeling a resurgence of the female Oedipus complex, and not only wanted a male child, but one of her father and in his image. At the height of this a male child was born to her father, but not from her: from her mother. Feeling spurned and bitter she turned her back on her father and his sex all together. Freud compared this to the common action of men who have been hurt badly for the first time by the women they love, resulting in their later misogynistic tendencies. All of this could have many different results for the girl, but the most extreme manifested: “She changed into a man and took her mother in place of her father as her love object”. This also helped her relationship with her mom since they were no longer in direct competition. It also had the adverse, though no less desired effect on her father: he despised her newfound object choice and this seemed a suitable revenge for his giving her mother a man-child instead of herself. She kept things from her father but let slip only enough to enrage him all the more. This was why she would walk with the lady near his place of business at times of the day he was likely to be walking by. Freud seeme...
