Word: sadism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minor mistreatment of prisoners was also part of the German pattern, in which superiors mistreat subordinates, Dr. Cohen reasons. Most difficult to explain, he found, were deliberately planned tortures. He feels these cases cannot be dismissed as simple sadism. Rather, he believes, they resulted from Freud's drive of aggression, heightened by frustration. "Normally this drive is counteracted by mental inhibitions provided by society, but Nazi society supported this aggression...
...probably the most fascinating section in this class deals with works on sadism and masochism in love, most particularly, the art of flagellation. One finds among the volumes discussing this subject "The Strap Returns: New Notes on Flagellation," "Presented in Leather," "A History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants," and "Tender Bottom...
...Pandora and Flying Dutchman legends are merely fantasies. When interwoven, somewhat crudely, yet credibly, with a collection of themes like Greek ideas of tragedy, and masochist thoughts of self torture and sadism, they make a fantastic and thoroughly fascinating picture...
...Sadism Gets Boost from School Kaisers...
Harvard leads the nation in promoting sadism among its students by allowing such a feature as face-slapping. The younger generation is being taught tolerance of most anything; shocked by very little. The higher education encompasses tolerance of sex experiences before marriage. There is a let down of strong moral feelings against having affairs outside the class room. Adventures of the minds of students no longer are apt to be mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life...