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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    above named patients were capable of normal connection with women, most of them were married and demanded of their wives no devia- tion f rom the norma] accomplishment of the sexual act. Some of them suffered occasionally f rom terrible pangs of remorse, were overcome by deep melancholy by the consciousness of their vice, by the fear of ruining their domestic happi- ness or of coming into conflict with the law. Bui when the tree interval was drawing to an cud, and the fit began to approach, the patient would become uneasy, his self-assertion was augmented, and he fell an invincible Longing to accomplish the sexual act in a certain perverted manner. The nearer the moment of the fit approached, the less able he found himself to accomplish normal copulation. The patient begins to fear that he would be unable to restrain himself, that he would betray himself to his wife or to his relations. Mean- time the morbid desire increases, it stifles all other thoughts and desires, pursues him con- tinually, without a moment's respite, giving him no rest by night or by day, robs him of the faculty of attending to any business, or of directing his thoughts to any other subject. He feels that if he is to continue the struggle something fearful will happen;