Mit nedenstående fredag-aftens-indlæg har afstedkommet nogle meget gode kommentarer - og tak for det - og jeg tillader mig (og det kan jeg sagtens) at flytte min egen - dernedefra - hérop:
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Er sadistens begær væsensforskellig fra "sadistens" -- eller er der 'bare' tale om en forskel i intensitet? Er forskellen en forskel i KVALITET eller i KVANTITET?
Mine damer og herrer, jeg udnævner hermed dette til den kommende uges emne. Kommentér og filosofér.
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Forvent MEGET MERE MØRKE. De næste dage.
Her er - til en begyndelse - hvad Krafft-Ebing skriver i "Psychopathia Sexualis":
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Sadism, especially in its, rudimentary manifestations, seems to be of common occurrence in the domain of sexual perversion. Sadism is the experience of sexual pleasurable sensations (including orgasm) produced by acts of cruelty, bodily punishment afflicted on one's own person or when witnessed in others, be they animals or human beings. It may also consist of an innate desire to humiliate, hurt, wound or even destroy others in order thereby to create sexual pleasure in one's self.
Thus it will happen that one of the consorts in sexual heat will strike, bite or pinch the other, that kissing degenerates into biting.
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The transition from these atavistic manifestations, which no doubt belong to the sphere of physiological sexuality, to the most monstrous acts of destruction of the consort's life can be readily traced.
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In an attempt to explain the association of lust cruelty, it is necessary to return to a consideration of the quasi-physiological cases, in which, at the moment of most intense lust, very excitable individuals, who are otherwise normal, commit such acts as biting and scratching, which are usually due to anger. It must further be remembered that love and anger are not only the most intense emotions, but also the only two forms of robust (sthenic) emotion. Both seek their object, try to possess themselves of it, and naturally exhaust themselves in a physical effect on it; both throw the psycho-motor sphere into the most intense excitement, and thus, by means of this excitation, reach their normal expression.
From this standpoint it is clear how lust impels to acts that otherwise are expressive of anger. 1 The one, like the other, is a state of exaltation, an intense excitation of the entire psycho-motor sphere. Thus there arises an impulse to react on the object that induces the stimulus, in every possible way, and with the greatest intensity. Just as maniacal exaltation easily passes to raging destructiveness, so exaltation of the sexual emotion often induces an impulse to spend itself in senseless and apparently harmful acts. To a certain extent these are psychical accompaniments; but it is not simply an unconscious excitation of innervation of muscles (which also sometimes occurs as blind violence); it is a true hyperbole, a desire to exert the utmost possible effect upon the individual giving rise to the stimulus. The most intense means, however, is the infliction of pain.
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Sadism is thus nothing else than an excessive and monstrous pathological intensification of phenomena, possible, too, in normal conditions in rudimental forms, which accompany the psychical vita sexualis, particularly in males. It is of course not at all necessary, and not even the rule, that the sadistic individual should be conscious of his instinct. What he feels is, as a rule, only the impulse to cruel arid violent treatment of the opposite sex, and the colouring of the idea of such acts with lustful feelings. Thus arises a powerful impulse to commit the imagined deeds. In as far as the actual motives of this instinct are not comprehended by the individual, the sadistic acts have the character of impulsive deeds.
When the association of lust and cruelty is present, not only does the lustful emotion awaken the impulse to cruelty, but vice versa; cruel ideas and acts of cruelty cause sexual excitement, and in this way are used by perverse individuals.
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Sadistic acts vary in monstrousness according to the power exercised by the perverse instinct over the individual thus afflicted, and in accordance with the strength of opposing ideas that may be present, which nearly always are more or less weakened by original ethical defects, hereditary degeneracy, or moral insanity. Thus there arises a long series of forms which begins with capital crime and ends with paltry acts affording merely symbolic satisfaction to the perverse desires of the sadistic individual.
Sadistic acts may be further differentiated according to their nature; either taking place after consummated coitus which leaves the libido nimia unsatisfied; or, with diminished virility, being undertaken to merely stimulate the diminished power; or, finally, where virility is absolutely wanting, as becoming simply an equivalent for impossible coitus, and for the induction of ejaculation. In the last two cases, notwithstanding impotence, there is still intense libido; or there was, at least, intense libido in the individual at the time when the sadistic acts became a habit. Sexual hypenesthesia must always be regarded as the basis of sadistic inclinations.
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