Freud Questions from Crow

1.) At the top of page 14, Freud derails a set of assumptions that had been operating in his analysis of inversion in order to allow for the many varied instances of "frequent" yet not "normal" occurrences, showing a disconnect between sexual instinct and sexual object. He has not yet established the idea that these sexual instincts appear to be influenced by sexual stimulation and parental affection in the infantile state, and after the period of latency during puberty in a further repression, and only then bringing about the possibility of fetishization. Even further, he goes on to reflect that the infantile stage is characterized by autoeroticism, which would seem to set up the self as the sexual object (if not the mothers breast etc.), which makes me wonder: What would Freud say about the fetishization of the self? Does that at all fit in with the ideas he is proposing?

2.) I find it hard to reconcile Freud's insistence that infantile sex instincts are autoerotic while he is incessantly (if not explicitly) pointing to the external factors for which bodily stimulation merely acts as emulation in the case of non-genital erotogenic zones (such as parental influence, the manipulation of seduction, the substitution of the thumb for the breast, etc.) Also, (how) can autoeroticism exist in notably penisless females? (bringing in ideas established in the other essays.)

3.) To what extent is it significant that the sexual object as fetish resulting from - among other factors in the two waves of sexual object preference - repression is necessarily unobtainable, in that the sexual appetite can be temporarily quenched, presenting periods during which sexual objects do not have desirability for normative instances of genital stimulation in the fashion of reproductive activity.

4.) Is this rift in the ego what might be considered depravity, neurosis, or perversion according to Freud's earlier works? Would these be abnormal tendencies, or do they find a parallel in fine line walked by the loving parent who stands to lose by faulting to either side of perfect balance of display of affection? Does the boy need to continue to hallucinate a penis, continue to masturbate, and simultaneously fear and deny the possibility of castration?