THE OBSESSIVE PARAPHILIAS (PERVERSIONS)

Abstract

He who shows me a new plant pleases me more than all the dialecticians who subtilize probabilities. For what is their philosophy? An opinion concerning opinion. —Helvetius. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction—Love and Hate—Definitions The Development of Sadomasochism; Infantilism Sadomasochism and Religion Relation to Obsessional Neuroses and Fetishism Relation to Homosexuality The Affect Intoxication; The Problem of Resistance Incest and Jealousy The Theme of the Dissolute Mother Symbolic Sadomasochistic Acts; Criminality Cannibalism, Vampirism and Necrophilia—Symbolic Cruel Acts—Symbolic Sympathetic Acts Dream and Fantasy Life Sadomasochism and Epilepsy Sadomasochism and Surgery Fetishism (Proper) Prophylaxis—Critical Comment INTRODUCTION Among the many aberrant forms of sex behavior which come to the attention of the psychotherapist is that displayed by a type of patient who, although claiming a thoroughly normal attitude in matters of sex, is, for reasons unknown to him, greatly perturbed by many sexual problems. These patients say that their mind dwells continually on women,