SACHER-MASOCH, LEOPOLD RITTER VON (1836-1895) . An Aus-
trian lawyer and author of short stories and novels. Throughout his works
eroticism is linked with torture, therefore his name became the origin of the
term "masochism" (q.v.), which was coined by Richard von Krafft-Ebing
(q.v.). Sacher-Masoch's own sexual deviations, which included a craving for
humiliation, were described in several of his novels.

Bibliography: Sacher-Masoch L. R. von. 1902. Venus in furs.

SACHS, BERNARD (1858-1944) . An American neurologist and psychi-
atrist of German parentage, a pupil of Theodor Meynert (q.v.). He coined
the term "amaurotic familial idiocy" (q.v.) to describe a condition caused
by histiological changes in the cortex. His book A Treatise of the Nervous
Diseases of Children, published in 1895, was the first of its kind in the
United States and brought him immediate recognition.

Bibliography: Haymaker W., and Schiller F. 1970. The founders of neurology. 2d.
ed.

SACHS, HANS (1881-1947) . A German follower and pupil of Sigmund
Freud (q.v.). He was one of the organizers of the first Psychoanalytic Train-
ing Institute in Berlin and was himself a training analyst there. With Otto
Rank (q.v.) he helped to establish the journal Imago (q.v.), which linked
psychoanalytic doctrines with mythology and the arts. He emigrated to
Boston, Massachusetts and there founded another journal of the same title
in 1939.

Bibliography: Alexander F. G., and Selesnick S. T. 1966. The history of psychiatry.

SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA MARY (VITA) (1892-1962) . English
poet and novelist. She married Harold Nicolson ( 1886-1968), and, although
fond of each other, they both loved people of their own sex. Their uncon-

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