In Russia, as in most other countries, a significant part of society has a persistent critical attitude towards the demonstration of homosexual behavior, designated by some authors as “homonegativism” or “homophobia”. Exists various explanations homonegative attitude. The so-called. "Psychoanalytic hypothesis", which consists in the assumption that the critical attitude of heterosexual individuals to the demonstration of homosexual behavior is due to subconscious homosexual attraction. In other words, the claimed essence of the hypothesis can be simplified to the following: “homophobes are hidden homosexuals”. This statement used frequently in the rhetoric of gay activists in a public discussion on the topic of non-physiological sexual attraction and its place in Russian society. They are operated by non-specialists in specific print media, films, television shows, on the Internet. Harvard gay propaganda developers directly prescribed use this argument to embarrass opponents.

Scientific workpublished in the journal World of Science, which conducted a meta-analysis of 12 publications exploring the “psychoanalytic hypothesis”, proves that the media argument “homophobia is hidden homosexuality” has no scientific basis.

The authorship of this hypothesis, according to which the suppressed homosexual tendencies of an individual under the action of the defense mechanism of "reactive formation" turn into hostility, does not belong to Freud, as it is mistakenly believed, but to the British parapsychologist, criminologist and homosexual Donald West. The very author of the term "latent homosexuality" Sigmund Freud, understood by him the homosexual component of constitutional physiological bisexuality inherent in each individual, squeezed into the unconscious during normal psychosexual development.

The driving force of repression in every person is the struggle between two sexual characters. The dominant gender of a person who is more strongly developed, crowds out mental manifestation of the subordinate gender into the unconscious.

The psychoanalytic hypothesis of the critical attitude of heterosexual individuals to homosexual behavior has a number of fundamental shortcomings. According to a study by the American organization Pew Research Center, more than 90% of the population of some Asian and African states and 20 – 60% of the population in some other regions have a critical attitude towards homosexuality. Such prevalence indicates either that the homonegative attitude is in no way connected with the hypothetical “latent homosexuality”, or that the prevalence of “latent homosexuality” in the Asian and African region reaches more than 90%. The latter seems, to put it mildly, doubtful. 

From a biological point of view, the hypothetical strategy of “suppressing unconscious desires by demonstrating a negative attitude towards such desires” is ineffective and meaningless: the body does not need to deceive itself in the presence of any desires. Creating internal false beliefs (suppressing any desires) does not carry any useful functions. At the level of the “conscious / unconscious” system, the feeling of hunger, sexual desire, fear, etc., is always recognized and recognized by the human consciousness as such, regardless of whether a person demonstrates such feelings or not - human thinking has a modal character. Empirical evidence does not support the psychoanalytic hypothesis of a critical attitude of heterosexual individuals to homosexual behavior. The critical attitude of heterosexual individuals to the demonstration of homosexual activity is explained both by biological underlying mechanisms (the behavioral immune system) and the effect of “attraction to like and rejection of unlike”. 

Full article on the website of the journal World of Science: https://mir-nauki.com/12PSMN518.html

The journal is included in the List of Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals, approved by the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC RF), and is part of the database of the Russian Science Citation Index.

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