Sadism
The sadism is the search for pleasure in the suffering (physical or moral: domination, control,…) voluntarily inflicted with others (possibly an animal). Even if sadism can exist independently of the sexual activities, it is frequently associated there. More still, certain people cannot have satisfactory sexual relationships without inflicting sufferings with others.
The term was forged starting from the name of the Philosophe of the Lumières, Sade, whose writings put in scene actions of this type.
Sadism is dependant on the Masochisme and more generally on all the activities likely to cause suffering: torture, BDSM ,…
Psychoanalyze sadism
Sadism was primarily attached by Freud to the activity Sexuelle strictly speaking. But employment already indicated at his place the will to inflict suffering beyond sexology. Thereafter, other authors will retain this comprehension of sadism except sexual activity. Sadism is included/understood then like demonstration of a death instinct, fray to a Sexual instinct (see for example Clara, the heroin of the novel of Octave Mirbeau, the Garden of the torments ), but returning to psychic sexuality more than with an act strictly speaking.The concept returns at other points, like the Fantasme of primitive Scène. The primal scene is perception by the child, or the phantasm, to see the sexual activity of the parents. This parental sexual relation will be often perceived like a sadistic act on behalf of the father. Sadism returns to this primal scene, highly discussed and largely organizing the fantasmatic life.
In psychoanalysis, sadism is a Perversion, and defense against sadism is common in the Névrose, in particular in the Obsessional neurosis, which represents a defense against theanal one, based on the phantasm to control the excrements.
External bonds
- the Marquis de Sade: Works of the Marquis de Sade which gave its name to the word sadism.
See too
Simple: Sadism
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