sexual activity with another person could also be explained by her own concept of altruistic surrender. Altruistic surrender is described as a behavior through which a person lives her or his life in a way that is entirely dedicated to fulfilling the needs of others while sublimating one's own desires. Loyalty and self sacrifice provide satisfaction to the person who lives a life of altruistic surrender.
That Anna Freud abstained from a physical sexual relationship with another person throughout her life does not mean that homosexual tendencies were necessarily absent from her personality. Homosexuality generally refers to physical sexual activity between two persons of the same sex (Gadpaille, 1989, p. 1086). Homosexuality "as a clinical or diagnostic term is misleading, however; it implies a unity of behavior and meaning that does not exist" (Gadpaille, 1989, p. 1086). Adult preferential homosexuals "are distinguished simply by the conscious awareness of greater or exclusive sexual arousal by persons of the same sex. They
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