Volume 1

Sadism and masochism : the psychology of hatred and cruelty / by Wilhelm Stekel, M.D. Authorized English version by Louise Brink.

  • Wilhelm Stekel
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Sadism and masochism : the psychology of hatred and cruelty / by Wilhelm Stekel, M.D. Authorized English version by Louise Brink. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IX 1 Cf. the chapter Weshalb wir reisen in Was im Grund' der Secle ruht. 4th ed. Hofbuchhandlung Paul Knepler, Vienna. [The Depths of the Soul, translated by S. A. Tannenbaum, New York, 1922.] 2 The condition of a man in the critical age, who becomes conscious of his homosexuality, has perhaps almost never been more admirably described than by Thomas Mann in his famous (plainly autobiographical) story Der Tod in Vcnedig [Death in Venice]. Cf. also my study Das kritische Alter des Mannes in Masken der Scxualitat, 2d ed., Verlag Paul Knepler, Vienna, 1924. 3 The notorious case of Dippold! 4 Schopenhauer says strikingly in his Philosophischen Aphorismen, pub- lished posthumously (Inselverlag, 1924) : Something has been thrust upon the insane in his life that comes to him as unendurable and which has to be forgotten in order to go on living. To exclude something absolutely from consciousness is possible only if something else appears in its place, and this is the insane idea, be it per.nanent or be it changing. The observing physicians seem however to have remained always at the point of the insane delusion and not to have noticed that this idea is present only to permit something else to be repressed and not allow it to come to the surface. CHAPTER X 1 His age. 2 Heinrich told me in one of the last sessions that he feared death and on this account wanted to remain forever a child. He needs the fiction of childhood in order to escape the last great reckoning of the Final Judgment. 3 Heinrich has given up the dream of the great historical mission (to become a famous writer) and is preparing himself for a practical profession. The paraphilia seems to have totally disappeared.