Note 588 — Chapter XXI

Havelock Ellis, “Studies in the Psychology of Sex,” vol. iii., “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse.”

[589] A special account of this matter is found in an interesting work by G. H. Schneider, “Joy and Sorrow of the Human Race: a Social and Psychological Investigation of the Fundamental Problems of Ethics” (Stuttgart, 1883).

[590] Cf. Eugen Dühren (Iwan Bloch), “Recent Researches regarding the Marquis de Sade and his Time” (Berlin, 1904). I refer the reader to this, my second, work on the Marquis de Sade, as a critical description of the true de Sade based upon contemporary sources. My former work upon this subject I now regard as inadequate, youthful, and containing numerous errors.

[591] See the description of this in G. Hirth’s “Ways to Love,” p. 638.

[592] They are still more clearly to be observed in animals.

[593] Havelock Ellis, “Eroticism and Pain,” in his “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse.”

[594] Friedrich S. Krauss, “Procreation in the Morals, the Customs, and the Beliefs of the Southern Slavs,” published in Kryptadia, vol. vii., pp. 208, 209 (Paris, 1899).

[595] A. Eulenburg, “Sadism and Masochism,” published in “Borderland Questions of Nervous and Mental Life,” No. 19, pp. 9, 10 (published by Loewenfeld and Kurella, Wiesbaden, 1902).

[596] Ch. Féré, “Sadism in the Bull-fight,” published in the Revue de Médecine, 1900, No. 8.

[597] The sadistic element in lynch law has recently been most vividly described by Feliz Baumann in his interesting book, “In Darkest America: Manners and Customs in the United States.” (Dresden, 1902).

[598] Francisque Bouiller, Du Plaisir et de la Douleur, p. 72 (Paris, 1865).

[599] A. Horwicz, “Psychological Analysis on Psychological Grounds,” p. 361 (Magdeburg, 1878).

[600] Michel Montaigne, “Essais,” p. 35 (Paris, 1886).

[601] Havelock Ellis, “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse.”

[602] J. J. Virey, “Woman,” p. 347.

[603] This point of view has been especially insisted on by Felix von Luschan. Cf. Politsch-anthropologische Revue, 1902, No. 1 p. 71.

[604] K. von don Steinen, “The Savage Races of Central Brazil,” p. 332 (Berlin, 1894).

[605] S. R. Steinmetz, “Ethnological Studies regarding the First Development of Punishment,” vol. i., p. 23 (Leiden and Leipzig, 1894).

[606] Cf. also Albert Eulenburg, “Sadism and Masochism,” pp. 57-68 (with a good bibliography; Wiesbaden, 1902); Iwan Bloch, “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., pp. 75-97; Pierre Guénolé, “L’étrange Passion. La Flagellation dans les Mœurs d’Aujourd’hui. Études et Documents” (Paris, 1904); Don Brennus Aléra, “La Flagellation Passionelle” (Paris, 1905); Lord Drialys, “Les Délices du Fouet. Précédé d’un Essai sur la Flagellation et le Masochisme par Jean de Villiot” (contains numerous interesting details; Paris, 1907).

[607] Especially at the time when flogging as a judicial punishment was still practised in Germany. The sadistic influence of this punishment is described by W. Reinhard in his celebrated book “Lenchen im Zuchthause” (“Lenchen in the Penitentiary”), reprinted 1901 (Karlsruhe, 1840). In Russia these conditions remain unaltered.

[608] P. Näcke, “Forensic, Psychiatrical, and Psychological Aspects of the Trial of Dippold, especially in Connexion with Sadism,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1903, vol. xiii., No. 4, pp. 350-372.

[609] Regarding the English flagellation brothels, and regarding Theresa Berkley, see my work, “The Sexual Life in England,” vol. ii., pp. 429-443.

[610] H. Lawes, “Die Weibliche Reize,” p. 180 (Leipzig, circa 1877).

[611] Siegfried Türkel (“Sexual Pathological Cases,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, vol. xi., pp. 219, 220) reports the case of an actor, who, known under the name of “The Ravisher,” induced prostitutes, whom he paid liberally, to resist him sometimes for hours, and then apparently to yield to his superior force. He once took a young girl into his dwelling, bound her suddenly, and violated her in this state.

[612] In this case, according to von Krafft-Ebing, the life of his victim depended on the fact whether ejaculation occurred soon or late.

[613] Cf. Santlus, “The Psychology of Human Impulses,” published in the Archives for Psychiatry, 1864, vol. vi., p. 255.

[614] Cf. regarding sadistic arson my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., pp. 116-118.

[615] G. Chr. Lichtenberg, “Miscellaneous Writings,” edited by L. Chr. Lichtenberg and Friedrich Kries, vol. ii., p. 447 (Göttingen, 1801).

[616] To this category belongs also the peculiar case reported by Siegfried Türkel (“Sexual Pathological Cases,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1903, vol. xi., pp. 215-218) of a historian who became sexually excited by the view of a woman suffering from sexual deprivation, and of her mental trouble. Another man (ibid., p. 222, 223) obtained sexual excitement and gratification only by watching the anxiety of women—for example, of such as he had himself falsely accused of theft!

[617] Cf. the reference to erotic dictionaries in my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., pp. 104, 105. Recently F. S. Krauss, in his “Anthropophyteia,” has devoted special attention to this peculiar manifestation of the popular soul.

[618] R. Schwaeblé, “Les Détraquées de Paris,” pp. 3-10.

[619] The typical literary advocate of masochism, who in actual life was a passionate worshipper of the whip, was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). Cf. regarding him, his life, his sexual perversions, and his writings, C. F. von Schlichtegroll, “Sacher-Masoch and Masochism” (Dresden, 1901); Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, “Confessions of my Life” (Berlin and Leipzig, 1906); C. F. von Schlichtegroll, “‘Wanda’ without Fur and Mask. An Answer to ‘Wanda’ von Sacher-Masoch’s ‘Confessions of My Life,’ with extracts from Sacher-Masoch’s Diary” (Leipzig, 1906).

[620] A. de Musset, “Confessions of a Child of his Time.”

[621] Ertel, “A ‘Slave,’” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, issued by Hans Gross, vol. xxv., Nos. 1 and 2, p. 107 (Leipzig, 1906). Hamburg appears to be the chief centre of masochistic prostitution. See also the report given by D. Hausen, “The Cane and the Whip,” second edition, pp. 164, 165 (Dresden, 1902).

[622] Regarding the voluptuous sensations connected with hanging, see my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. ii., p. 173, and more especially my “Sexual Life in England,” vol. iii., pp. 94-99 (Berlin, 1903); also Havelock Ellis, “Analysis of the Sexual Impulse.”

[623] Cf. Castor and Pollux, “The Masseuse Improprieties of Berlin” (Berlin, 1900).

[624] This is a favourite masochistic situation. Hans Baldung has immortalized it in a picture, in which Phyllis rides upon Aristotle. I owe to the kindness of my colleague Dr. Kantorowicz, in Hanover, the knowledge that J. von Falke describes an ivory relief representing the same scene. King Alexander looks on, and “rejoices at the scene—how the bearded old man, controlled by the beauty, with the bit in his mouth, is crawling about on all-fours, carrying the lady, armed with a whip.” In Semrau-Lübke’s “Elements of the History of Art,” vol. iii., p. 532 (Stuttgart, 1903), a picture on glass, from the Rahn Collection in Zurich, is described, which represents the same history.

[625] Ertel, op. cit., pp. 105, 106.

[626] The following extremely valuable contribution to the psychology of the Russian revolution now in progress was sent in September, 1906, from Russia to my colleague Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. He most kindly gave me this extremely interesting sketch for publication in this place. It throws a very clear light upon the nature of algolagnia. We have here a unique psychological document, which deserves the attention of politicians and sociologists no less than that of anthropologists and psychologists.