Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct

4. Neuroses (hysteria, neurasthenia, epileptoid states, etc.) co-exist.

Almost always the existence of temporary or lasting neurasthenia may be proved. As a rule, this is constitutional, having its root in congenital conditions. It is awakened and maintained by masturbation or enforced abstinence. In male individuals, owing to these practices or to congenital disposition, there is finally neurasthenia sexualis, which manifests itself essentially in irritable weakness of the ejaculation centre. Thus it is explained that, in most of the cases, simply embracing and kissing, or even only the sight of the loved person, induce the act of ejaculation. Frequently this is accompanied by an abnormally powerful feeling of lustful pleasure, which may be so intense as to suggest a feeling of magnetic currents passing through the body.

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
introduction of catheter, etc.). Ch.2
1. _Paradoxia_, _i.e._, sexual excitement occurring independently of the Ch.3
2. _Anæsthesia_ (absence of sexual instinct). Here all organic impulses Ch.4
3. _Hyperæsthesia_ (increased desire, satyriasis). In this state there Ch.5
4. _Paræsthesia_, (perversion of the sexual instinct, _i.e._, Ch.6
1. _Association of Active Cruelty and Violence with Ch.7
1. The patient, who had a great desire to be cured, was most strictly Ch.8
2. I allowed him, commanded him even, to think of nude women, because Ch.9
3. I sought, by means of hypnosis—which was hard to induce—and Ch.10
2. _The Association of Passively Endured Cruelty and Violence, with Ch.11
1. Masochism, according to my experience, is, under all circumstances, Ch.12
2. Physically and mentally I am in all respects masculine. I have a Ch.13
3. The foundation of all masochistic ideas is libido; and as this ebbs Ch.14
4. An example of masochistic ideas follows: “She” is a peasant Ch.15
5. In reading Sacher-Masoch, it struck me that in masochists, now and Ch.16
episode, and he has many other and important interests; for a woman, on Ch.17
3. _The Association of Lust with the Idea of Certain Portions of the Ch.18
1. Traces of hetero-sexual, with predominating homo-sexual, instinct Ch.19
3. The entire mental existence is altered to correspond with the Ch.20
4. The form of the body approaches that which corresponds to the Ch.21
1. The sexual life of individuals thus organized manifests itself, as a Ch.22
2. The psychical love manifest in these men is, for the most part, Ch.23
3. By the side of the functional signs of degeneration attending Ch.24
4. Neuroses (hysteria, neurasthenia, epileptoid states, etc.) co-exist. Ch.25
5. In the majority of cases, psychical anomalies (brilliant endowment in Ch.26
6. In almost all cases where an examination of the physical and mental Ch.27
1. _Psychical Hermaphroditism._[112]—The characteristic mark of this Ch.28
1868. The families of both my parents are healthy; at any rate, mental Ch.29
3. _Effemination and Viraginity._—There are various transitions from the Ch.30
24. It was discovered that she was of masculine sex. E. had worn female Ch.31
4. _Androgyny and Gynandry._—Forming direct transitions from the Ch.32
2. This condition, in that it is congenital, is incurable. There Ch.33
3. Mr. v. H., in the legal sense of the word, is not irresponsible, Ch.34
4. Mr. v. H. is also physically ill. He presents signs of slight Ch.35
1. The homo-sexual instinct appears secondarily, and always may be Ch.36
2. The homo-sexual instinct, as long as inversio sexualis has not taken Ch.37
3. The hetero-sexual instinct long remains predominant, and the Ch.38
1. Prevention of onanism, and removal of other influences injurious to Ch.39
2. Cure of the neurosis (neurasthenia sexualis and universalis) arising Ch.40
3. Mental treatment, in the sense of combating homo-sexual, and Ch.41
2. I abhor the love for my own sex, and shall never again think men Ch.42
3. I shall and will become well again, fall in love with a virtuous Ch.43
2. The command that male-love should be felt to be disgraceful and Ch.44
3. The command to regard only women as beautiful; to approach them, to Ch.45
2. I regard the inclination for men disgusting,—horrible; and I shall Ch.46
3. Women alone I find enticing. Once a week I shall cohabit, with full Ch.47
2. I no longer have inclination toward men; for love of men is against Ch.48
3. I feel an inclination toward women; for woman is lovely and Ch.49
1. H., aged 17, imbecile, enticed a little girl into a barn, by giving Ch.50
2. L., aged 21; imbecile; degenerate. While he was watching cattle, Ch.51
3. G., aged 21, microcephalic, imbecile, has masturbated since his Ch.52
4. B., aged 21; imbecile. While alone in a forest with his sister of Ch.53
1. To oppose the normal or intensified sexual desire, there may be no Ch.54
2. When the sexual desire is increased (states of psychical exaltation) Ch.55
3. When the sexual instinct is perverse (states of psychical Ch.56
1. OFFENSE AGAINST MORALITY IN THE FORM OF EXHIBITION. Ch.57
1. Paralytic, aged 60. At the age of fifty-eight he began to exhibit Ch.58
2. A drinker, aged 66, suffering with folie circulaire. His exhibition Ch.59
3. A drinker, predisposed, aged 49. He was always very excitable Ch.60
4. A man, aged 64; married; father of fourteen children. Great Ch.61
2. RAPE AND LUST-MURDER. Ch.62
3. BODILY INJURY, INJURY TO PROPERTY, AND TORTURE OF ANIMALS DEPENDENT Ch.63
4. BODILY INJURY, ROBBERY, AND THEFT DEPENDENT ON FETICHISM. Ch.64
5. VIOLATION OF INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE AGE OF FOURTEEN. Ch.65
6. UNNATURAL ABUSE—SODOMY.[140] Ch.66
1. As a means of sexual gratification, in case of great sexual desire, Ch.67
2. In old debauchees, who have become satiated with normal sexual Ch.68
3. Traditionally, among certain barbarous races that are devoid of Ch.69
1. Upon the basis of congenital contrary sexual instinct, with Ch.70
2. On the basis of acquired contrary sexual instinct:— Ch.71
1. In individuals of the lowest class, who, having had the misfortune Ch.72
2. Under circumstances analogous to those of I, 1,—as a remuneration Ch.73
1. In individuals affected with contrary sexual instinct, with Ch.74
2. In urnings who feel toward men like women, out of desire and lust. Ch.75
1. On July 5, 1777, a woman was brought before a court in London, who, Ch.76
2. In 1773, another woman, dressed as a man, courted a girl, and asked Ch.77
3. Two women lived together as man and wife for thirty years. On her Ch.78
7. NECROPHILIA.[147] Ch.79
8. INCEST. Ch.80
9. IMMORAL ACTS WITH PERSONS IN THE CARE OF OTHERS; SEDUCTION Ch.81
PART I.—THE NERVES. PART II.—THE ARTERIES. PART III.—THE VEINS. Ch.82
PART I. The Nerves.—Gives in a clear form not only the Cranial and Ch.83
PART II. The Arteries.—Gives a unique grouping of the Arterial system, Ch.84
PART III. The Veins.—Shows how the blood from the periphery of the Ch.85
1. It is the only arrangement which combines the Three Systems, and yet Ch.86
2. It is the only instance of the Cranial, Spinal, and Sympathetic Ch.87
3. From its neat size and clear type, and being printed only upon one Ch.88
5. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript Ch.89