Masochism: Between expansions, siftings and questions
We provide an approach to the topic of masochism by sorting it out into four different movements: first, Krafft Ebing’s introduction of the concept into the medical field. Second, Freud’s expansion to a wider participation in human’s sexual life. Such expansion goes on, and leads Reik into consideri...
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Facultad de Psicología. Cátedra de Psicopatología I
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/pathos/article/view/33157 |
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| Sumario: | We provide an approach to the topic of masochism by sorting it out into four different movements: first, Krafft Ebing’s introduction of the concept into the medical field. Second, Freud’s expansion to a wider participation in human’s sexual life. Such expansion goes on, and leads Reik into considering it as a “general attitude towards life”. Only with Lacan’s distinction between the other and the Other, a more accurate reading of the masochistic phenomenon can be possible in what we qualify as a sifting. Lastly, the fourth movement is what leaves us with the interrogation: what does masochism make us think nowadays? |
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