Note 412 — Chapter V

Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Neue Forschungen, u. s. w., p. 45 ff.: ‘The complete contrary of masochism is Sadism. While in the former the subject desires to suffer sorrows, and to feel himself in subjection to violence, in the latter his aim is to cause sorrows, and to exercise violence.... All the acts and situations carried out in the active part played by Sadism constitute, for masochism, the object of longing, to be attained passively. In both perversions these acts form a progression from purely symbolic events to grievous misdeeds.... Both are to be considered as original psychopathies of mentally abnormal individuals, afflicted in particular with psychic Hyperæsthesia sexualis, but also, as a rule, with other anomalies.... The pleasure of causing sorrow and the pleasure of experiencing sorrow appear only as two different sides of the same psychic event, the primary and essential principle in which is the consciousness of active and passive subjection respectively.’ See Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra, pt. i., p. 95: ‘Thou art going to women? Forget not the whip!’ Jenseits von Gut und Böse, p. 186: ‘Woman unlearns the fear of man,’ and thus ‘exposes her most womanly instincts.’