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“The boy represses the love for the mother by putting himself in her place, by identifying himself with her … He thus becomes homosexual; as a matter of fact he returns to the stage of autoerotism … We say that he finds his love object on the road to narcism, for the Greek legend called a boy Narcissus to whom nothing was more pleasing than his own mirrored image”