The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson.

  • Benjamin Tarnowski
Date:
1898
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Credit: The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that the development of periodically recurrent sexual aberrations is possible without the existence of a hereditary psychopathic con- stitution. For instance, An] el 1 describes the following case: A married man, of middle age, without pathological hereditary transmis- sion, had at one time fallen in a concert-hall and considerably bruised his head, so seriously as to have remained stunned for some time. He subsequently experienced much oppression and weight in the region of the heart, etc. He was later on subject to a peculiar sort of attacks, consisting in sleeplessness, loss of appetite, irritability and mental depression. When he was in this condition the presence of little girls caused him a peculiar excite- ment. Even his own little daughters aged five and ten years respectively awakened within him desires, that he could only master with difficulty; the shouts of children in a neigh- bouring room caused him erections. He felt himself irresistibly attracted towards little - girls and, although he thoroughly recognized all that was criminal and vicious in his desires, he used to go into the streets, to 1 Uebcr eigenthumliehe Anflille perverser Sexualerrcrjwuj (Singular Cases of perverted Sexual Stimulation), Archiv f. Psych., vol. XV, H. 2.