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Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives is founded on the premise that paying close attention to what is happening in our internal world can help us understand the rise of sadism in the world of popular culture. Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment appears to be on the rise, an increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. This book acts as a forum in which psychotherapists present psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon of sadomasochism at different stages of the human lifecycle: in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in later life, and consider its developmental roots. Over the last half-century, through books, movies, computerized video games and drama, the stories we are being sold as representing aspects of contemporary culture market two commodities: sadism and victory. How might we understand this, and can psychoanalysis help us make meaning of this aspect of human relating?  

This is volume I of “Sadism And Masochism”, a 1929 work by Wilhelm Stekel that explores the psychology of sadomasochism and related subjects. Wilhelm Stekel (1868 – 1940) was an Austrian physician and psychologist, as well as one of Freud’s earliest followers. Other notable works by this author include: “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1943), “The Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy” (1950), and “Impotence in the Male” (1927). Contents include: “The Polyphony of Thought”, “The Psychology of Hatred and of Cruelty”, “The Theory of the Resistance”, “The Definition of Sadism and Masochism”, “Relation of Sadomasochism to Homosexuality”, “Sadomasochism and Infantilism”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

This is volume I of “Sadism And Masochism”, a 1929 work by Wilhelm Stekel that explores the psychology of sadomasochism and related subjects. Wilhelm Stekel (1868 – 1940) was an Austrian physician and psychologist, as well as one of Freud’s earliest followers. Other notable works by this author include: “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1943), “The Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy” (1950), and “Impotence in the Male” (1927). Contents include: “The Polyphony of Thought”, “The Psychology of Hatred and of Cruelty”, “The Theory of the Resistance”, “The Definition of Sadism and Masochism”, “Relation of Sadomasochism to Homosexuality”, “Sadomasochism and Infantilism”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives is founded on the premise that paying close attention to what is happening in our internal world can help us understand the rise of sadism in the world of popular culture. Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment appears to be on the rise, an increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. This book acts as a forum in which psychotherapists present psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon of sadomasochism at different stages of the human lifecycle: in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in later life, and consider its developmental roots. Over the last half-century, through books, movies, computerized video games and drama, the stories we are being sold as representing aspects of contemporary culture market two commodities: sadism and victory. How might we understand this, and can psychoanalysis help us make meaning of this aspect of human relating?  

This rare text contains a ground-breaking treatise on two extremes of the human condition: sadism and masochism. Including societal examples of his time interwoven with historic sample incidents representative of the afflictions, this fascinating text is a clear and concise exploration of the subject that will appeal to both students of the subject and collectors of Stekel’s influential work. Within this work Stekel also makes frequent reference to the work of his contemporaries, such as Jung and Freud, in an attempt to enlighten the reader to the fundamentals of the conditions dealt with in this detailed portrayal of human behaviour. Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist, once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil." This scarce book was originally published in 1929 and is proudly republished here with an new prefatory biography of the author.

This rare text contains a ground-breaking treatise on two extremes of the human condition: sadism and masochism. Including societal examples of his time interwoven with historic sample incidents representative of the afflictions, this fascinating text is a clear and concise exploration of the subject that will appeal to both students of the subject and collectors of Stekel’s influential work. Within this work Stekel also makes frequent reference to the work of his contemporaries, such as Jung and Freud, in an attempt to enlighten the reader to the fundamentals of the conditions dealt with in this detailed portrayal of human behaviour. Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist, once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil." This scarce book was originally published in 1929 and is proudly republished here with an new prefatory biography of the author.

From the imagination of psychologist Glenn C. Ellenbogen comes this hilarious anthology of satirical articles drawn from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity. In Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality, readers--professionals and laypeople alike--will encounter tongue-in-cheek articles from the psychological community, including "Psychotherapy of the Dead" and "Etiology and the Treatment of Childhood." Written in the vernacular of the field, the articles may leave readers wondering if the writers are in earnest, but never doubting that psychologists do, in fact, possess a funny bone!

Fact: One hundred percent of all dead patients showed a marked reluctance to pay their bills.Fact: Well over half of all Americans alive today have experienced childhood directly, a syndrome marked by a) dwarfism b) knowledge deficits and c) legume anorexia.Fact: When Ms. Cinderella left her glass slipper behind at the stroke of midnight, she was clearly acting in a state of rebellion against the dictatorial regimentation of the domineering fairy godmother.It's true. Members of the psychiatric community are capable of laughter. The Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, the brainchild of psychologist Glenn C. Ellenbogen, has received confirmed reports of uncontrollable outbursts of laughter as the pages of the scholarly parody are sampled.Now patients, professionals, and armchair travelers alike can enjoy the articles that have appeared in this hilarious journal in one hilarious anthology, including such profound and penetrating subjects as "New Improved Delusions," "The Scale of Mental Abilities Requiring Thinking Somewhat (SMARTS)," "Cancer and Tobacco: A Bum Rat," and more. Learn how psychoanalysts diagnose patients by the way they park their cars in the mental health clinic lot and how to apply the practical principles of Vigilante Effectiveness Training (VET) in daily life."For the Jung at heart!" --New York Daily News

The author of the National Bestsellers Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Soul of Sex turns to the shadow side of loving and therapy: its cruelties, perversions, and appalling tortures. In Dark Eros, Thomas Moore shines a new light on the dark fictions of the Marquis de Sade to learn what they teach about the horrors hidden in the human heart, revealing the poetic and imaginitive powers that lie within violence and sexual victimization. By returning to the paradox of ancient medicine—the cause of a disease is its very cure—Thomas Moore opens the way through sadism that affects family, education, love affairs, the work place and politics.

This is a commentary on human violence. Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy is a reprint of the 1948 edition, with a new introduction by Donald Lathrop. Basing his own hypothesis on the writings of Carl Jung, psychologist Robert Eisler suggests a prehistoric answer to the birth of the werwolf. He suggests that primitive man had been vegetarian and peaceful until the Ice Age forced humans to kill to survive. Not only could the necessity of eating meat to not starve to death have resulted in permanent trauma, but wearing hides to not freeze to death could have been buried deep in our psyche as a memory of turning into fur-covered beasts. Eisler suggests the possibility of a pre-historical, evolutionist derivation of all causes of violence. Also offered is his thesis that many contemporary serial killers were a particular breed of psychologically warped individuals who believed that they were werewolves. The book includes Eisler's lecture given to the Royal Society of Medicine. Also included are chapters on: Professor Jung's Archetypes and Neo Lamarckism; the Roman Luperci and the Lupercalia Ritual, Contemporary Parallels; The Flagellation of Women in the Dio Nysian Mysteries; A Clear Case of Vampirism, John George Haigh; Going Beserk; many pages of his notes; and Index and appendices.

Before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish these periodicals with lurid covers and sensational fiction. They eschewed explicit descriptions of sex acts but otherwise left nothing to the imagination, routinely trafficking in torture and paraphilia. Bearing Goodman’s “Red Circle” trademark, the horror pulps MYSTERY TALES, UNCANNY TALES, MARVEL TALES, and REAL MYSTERY were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste and igniting a firestorm of outrage that eventually drove them off the newsstands. Although Goodman continued publishing pulps as well as comic books well into the 1950s, he deliberately allowed MYSTERY TALES and its sister magazines to lapse into obscurity, making no attempt to renew their copyrights or reprint their contents in other periodicals or paperback editions. This anthology collects the wildest, most offensive stories from those long-forgotten magazines, making it a veritable cornucopia of sexual violence and perversion!

There is no more dramatic story in the annals of English witchcraft than that of The Witches of Warboys. On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow. Or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmortons' neighbors Alice, Agnes and John Samuel, would be dragged before a country court on charges of sorcery, enchantment and murder. With a rich and colorful cast of characters, and a potent mixture of tension and pathos to match anything in the later Salem witch trials, their story is told here in full for the first time . A conflict about honor and truth between two families in a close-knit Elizabethan village, at the heart of the narrative coils a dark account of possession by demons, of malevolent spirits, of trust broken and of children accursed. What really happened in Warboys in the late sixteenth century, to drive this unremarkable rural community into such frenzy? Philip Almond leads us into a half-forgotten world of horror and crime, of victims and victimizers, of spectres, sex with the devil and ""scratching"" the witch: a macabre and dangerous world where nothing is as it seems, where evil begets evil, and where innocence is betrayed.

Before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish these periodicals with lurid covers and sensational fiction. They eschewed explicit descriptions of sex acts but otherwise left nothing to the imagination, routinely trafficking in torture and paraphilia. Bearing Goodman’s “Red Circle” trademark, the horror pulps MYSTERY TALES, UNCANNY TALES, MARVEL TALES, and REAL MYSTERY were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste and igniting a firestorm of outrage that eventually drove them off the newsstands. Although Goodman continued publishing pulps as well as comic books well into the 1950s, he deliberately allowed MYSTERY TALES and its sister magazines to lapse into obscurity, making no attempt to renew their copyrights or reprint their contents in other periodicals or paperback editions. This anthology collects the wildest, most offensive stories from those long-forgotten magazines, making it a veritable cornucopia of sexual violence and perversion!

A vision in black and metallic silver, this faux leather flogger whip stands out against traditional bondage gear as an exquisite tool of sadism. Delivering teasing strokes and sharp licks, this whip intensifies passions and indulges submissive fantasies. Perfectly sized for travel, this shortened flogger whip is ideal for delivering delicious stings to any part of your lover's body. Its petite proportions are ideal for travel, allowing it to hide in a handbag or suitcase discreetly. Measuring just 15 inches from handle to tip, this mini flogger is suitable for precise stimulation as well as offering broader swings to fleshier body parts. Part of the Fifty Shades of Grey The Official Pleasure Collection approved by author E L James. Supplied with a Fifty Shades of Grey storage bag, this devilish flogger is the ideal erotic gift for fans of the trilogy.

This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Nevertheless, Cossack Captain Grigori Semionov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying down its arms and boarding a train that carried it back into the Bolsheviks' tenuous territory. Through such bold action, Semionov and a handful of young Cossack brethren established themselves as the warlords of Eastern Siberia and Russia's Pacific maritime provinces during the next bloody year. Like inland pirates, they menaced the Trans-Siberian Railroad with fleets of armoured trains, Cossack cavalry, mercenaries and pressgang cannon fodder. They undermined Admiral Kolchak's White armies, ruthlessly liquidated all Reds, terrorized the population, sold out to the Japanese, and antagonized the American Expeditionary Force and Czech Legion in a frenzied orchestration of the Russian Empire's gotterdammerung. Historians have long recognized that Ataman Semionov and Company were a nasty lot. This book details precisely how nasty they were.  

Bored with vanilla sex? Now that a certain bestseller has set imaginations afire, everyone's eager to explore the world of BDSM (bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism). Let the fun and games begin, with this sizzling-hot guide to power play! Learn the ropes (literally) of bondage, try titillating torture for a spanking good time, enjoy daring ideas with whips and Wartenberg wheels, and act out sizzling scenarios and scenes for all levels—from newcomers through to experienced role players. Plus, the pack includes an imitation-silk cloth to use as a restraint or blindfold. Whether your urge is to be master or pupil, strapped to the bed or holding the cane, you'll find a way to get your kink on!

Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.

First published in German in 1902, Hashish is a collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanism, eroticism, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia and death.Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a “Hashish Club,” where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of “recumbent wanderers” explores the abyss of the unconscious. The narrator and the count don a variety of identities as they in turn enter the narratives, sometimes participating in them, other times merely observing them from the vantage point of a shifting divan. Engaging in romantic liaisons with masks and cadavers, taking part in Satanic orgies and carnivals, plotting blasphemy and riding carriages through cityscapes where time loses its bearings, the protagonists draw the reader into their narrative and psychological unmooring.A forgotten yet important chapter in the lineage of German fantastic and decadent literature, this translation of Hashish is illustrated throughout with drawings by the author’s brother-in-law, Alfred Kubin, from the book’s second, 1913 German edition.Oscar A.H. Schmitz (1873–1931) lived the life of a literary dandy. Although best remembered in Germany for his second book, Hashish, and the decadent lineage it helped inaugurate in German letters, his output was wide-ranging, from Romantic verse to plays and travel books, to a series of popular nonfiction works on politics, yoga, astrology, etiquette and Jungian psychology.

In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch's "peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity." He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism; their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them - Masoch and Sade - lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles a part. Venus in Furs, the most famous of all of Masoch's novels was written in 1870 and belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness - these do not eclipse the singular power of Masoch's eroticism.

This study of human violence begins by describing the "magnitude gap" between the victim's viewpoint and that of the perpetrator. It then goes on to explore the basic roots of evil, evil as a means to an end, revenge and egotism, and sadism. The final section looks at how people step over the line between acceptable and evil acts, then how evil can grow and spread. There is also a discussion of the human mechanism for suppressing evil - guilt - as well as our natural inclination towards ambivalence, which allows evil to flourish.