The introduction of a special type of homosexual who exists "less exclusively beneath of Saturn’s outrider", whose material pleasures know "certain imperious localizations" and who "would shock most people by theur avowals" should, however, caution us against hastily equating the various characters that populate Proust’s theory of sexuality with analytical concepts such as identification, the ego ideal, object choice or the "melancholic formation of gender", until we have ass
