Emphasis in hysteria to be placed upon displacement of affect -- Will to pain as well as to freedom from pain -- Example of opera- tion without narcosis under pumped-up affect -- Sadists and maso- chists very sensitive to pain except under great affect -- Sado- masochists all affect-hungry -- Most histories of sadists merely descriptive -- Case 1: Pleasure in observing whipping at school -- Feeling of guilt with pollutions -- Mother fixation without con- scious recognition -- Mother stronger, more active than father -- Infantile religiousness -- Repressed homosexual component -- Fear and forbidden wish play part in creating excitement -- Sadomas- ochistic clinical picture contains fetishism, homosexuality, all forms of paraphiliac impulse -- Case 2: Educated in cloister yet proclaims himself atheist and free-thinker -- Strong inner piety -- Wandering impulse -- Father in flight from married life -- Sadism changed to masochism only after some years -- Homosexuality -- Overvaluation of woman (mother) -- Profound sense of guilt -- Homosexual transference to physician -- Death motives in dreams -- Vacillation between church and freedom -- Castration ideas and disguised primitive reaction -- Relation to father complex -- Blend- ing of religion and masochism -- Bipolar attitude toward woman -- Hypnosis reveals knowledge of mother's prostitution -- Hatred of mother and jealousy -- Behind masochism original sadism directed toward parents -- Case 3: Patient as child coddled by women in family, who dominate father -- Strong bond with sister -- Trauma of her engagement -- Behind this, trauma of marriage of aunt, who had seduced him as child -- Mother whipped; father too weak to protest -- Case 4: Impotence -- Passionate love to aunt as boy -- Brutal treatment by father accompanied by ceremonial -- Strong healthy sexual tendency in adolescence, but unfortunate marriage caused regression to infantile stages -- Analysis reveals compul- sive parapathy in all -- Trisexuality important manifestation -- Man, woman, avoided by flight to child -- Cure of sadomasochism means overcoming of infantilism 57
CHAPTER V
Homosexual represses sadistic component -- Reference to works on homosexuality -- Previous failure to recognize sadism and masochism as bipolar expressions of same energy -- All re- actions in love life manifested positively and negatively -- Social life forces normal man more to sadism, woman to masochism -- Adler's "masculine protest" -- Objections to it -- Krafft-Ebing
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Publication Information: Book Title: Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty. Volume: 1. Contributors: Wilhelm Stekel - author. Publisher: Liveright. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: xi.
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