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...book is dedicated to examining wisdom writing throughout the ages, beginning with Job and Ecclesiastes and moving through canonical Western literature until the 20th century, ending with Freud and Proust. Each section is dedicated to a pair of writers and thinkers, with intensely close and sometimes confusedly compacted analysis that is characteristic of Bloom’s writing...
...hesitate to refer to current political events at times throughout his reading, at one point spontaneously including “our current president” into a part of the introduction he read from which mentioned those who “reject what they know of Marx, Darwin, and Freud...
...wasn’t sure what Alanis meant back then. I was naive and without any understanding of how my curious interest would one day manifest itself as a full-fledged fetish. Perhaps the genesis lay in that episode. Freud would certainly agree, especially after I revealed to him that I’ve mysteriously never heard my mother utter such an oath. But origins are irrelevant; the obsession is here, and for now I can just cross my fingers and hope to one day find a rock star woman who might understand my need and fill me with constant...
...founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, analyzes sadomasochism as part of a number of disorders arising from the repression of the subconscious. Freud describes masochism as a perversion common in women and sadism as a perversion common in men, arising from pent-up violent energy...
...British psychologist and founder of sexology Havelock Ellis finishes his seven-volume polemic Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Ellis refutes Freud and Krafft-Ebing by arguing that there is little distinction between sadism and masochism as the two are complementary emotional states. Ellis creates the modern conception of SM, noting that sadomasochists use pain to create pleasure and violence to express love. Ellis also refutes Freud and Krafft-Ebing’s claims that sadism is a stereotypical male sexual response and masochism a stereotypical female sexual response...