Sexual Myths of Modernity
Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their repression under the demands of modern European civilization. Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence, crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained its currency in Europ…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-3073-6
- EAN: 9781498530736
- Produktnummer: 23053400
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'009 KB
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By Alison M. Moore
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