Word: psychopathia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facile analysis, the biographer suggests that Sacher-Masoch's depravity may have been caused by a dominant mother, a dominant nursemaid and a dominant aunt. This could explain why he was so upset when he heard that Dr. Krafft-Ebing had singled him out for inclusion in his Psychopathia Sexualis and coined the term masochism. After all, Masoch was his mother's family name, and he was concerned that her feelings would be hurt. He would have
...Tropic of Cancer, once the last word in unprintable scatology, can often be picked up in remainder bins for 25?. Miller has almost acquired a kind of dignity as the Grand Old Dirty Man of the trade, compared with some of the more current writers. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis is out in two new editions, which for the first time render all those horrendous Latin passages in English-and, surrounded by the author's quaint 19th century moralizing, they seem tame alongside Candy or Norman Mailer's An American Dream...