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Psychopathia sexualis

Note 14 — I. A FRAGMENT OF A PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL LIFE.

Charles Gilbert Chaddock translation

The relation of this trio finds its expression not only in the events of real life, as above indicated, but also in romance, and even in the sculpture of degenerate eras. As an example we may point to the group of St. Theresa, by Bernini, who “sinks in an hysterical faint on a marble cloud, with an amorous angel plunging the arrow (of divine love) into her heart” (Lübke).

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