Psychopathia Sexualis Research Articles

Krafft-Ebing, a Psychopathia Sexualis e a criação da noção médica de sadismo

Escrita na segunda metade do século XIX, a Psychopathia Sexualis de Richard Krafft-Ebing participa de um movimento histórico-cultural que institui o olhar e a autoridade médica como referências necessárias para se deliberar quanto à legitimidade dos diferentes comportamentos sexuais humanos. Suas incidências se estendem mesmo sobre o campo legal e jurídico. Obra que sintetiza e aprofunda os estudos da sexologia de seu tempo, Psychopathia Sexualis introduz uma delimitação do campo das perversões sexuais, uma nomenclatura - que inclui termos que seriam posteriormente consagrados como sadismo, masoquismo e fetichismo, e um rigor classificatório que a tornarão uma referência incontornável para todos os estudos posteriores nesse campo, incluindo a obra freudiana.

Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Lair of the White Worm

Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Specifically, the essay examines racial theories, physiognomy, criminology, brain science, and sexology as they appear in Stoker’s two novels. Stoker owned a copy Johann Caspar Lavater’s five-volume edition of Essays on Physiognomy (1789), and declared himself to be a “believer of the science” of physiognomy. The second major “weird science” infecting the gothic works of Stoker is the new field of criminology, or the bourgeois attempt to codify, control, and exterminate criminal elements in the human population. Stoker drew on both Havelock Ellis’s The Criminal, published in 1890, and the Italian Cesare Lombroso’s work, Uomo Delinquente (1876), a book that was available to Stoker in a two volume French translation published as L’Homme Criminel (1895). Stoker derived a number of his passages about the workings of the brain from the theories of the well-known professor of physiology, W. B. Carpenter, founder of the notion of “unconscious cerebration,” a concept developed in his book Principles of Mental Physiology (1874). Finally, Richard von Krafft-Ebing published his pioneering text on sexuality in 1886, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study, and invented the scientific study of sex. Of a piece with criminology, sexology attempted to categorize and medicalize human behaviors in such a way that all would become clear to the informed and enlightened bourgeois consciousness. As another weirdly scientific effort to “discipline and punish,” sexology sought to transform crime into perversion, and the man or woman suffering from vampiric tendencies became just another case study of sexual deviancy.

Male Anxieties: Nerve Force, Nation, and the Power of Sexual Knowledge

AbstractIn the autumn of 1929, a Kyôto-based journal for popular medicine reported that the dean of sexology, Habuto Eiji, had committed suicide after having suffered from neurasthenia (shinkei suijaku) for a long time. A practicing gynaecologist, Habuto had been the editor of the sexological journal Seiyoku to Jinsei (Sexual Desire and Humankind), the author of numerous books on sexual issues, and the co-author, together with Sawada Junjirô, of an abridged Japanese version of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, entitled Hentai Seiyokuron (1915). He also was involved in the translation of Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901–1928), the twenty Japanese-language volumes which were advertised under the title Sei no Shinri as early as in 1927. Among other sexologists, Habuto had been a chief theorist on the causes of neurasthenia. Physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, pedagogues, and sexologists agreed with him that neurasthenia primarily afflicted men and was caused by overpowering exhaustion that was in turn the result of certain sexual practices. Modern commentators like Habuto speculated that neurasthenia was the result of masturbation or – even worse – homosexuality.

"An Agony of Pleasurable Suffering": Masochism and Maternal Deprivation in Mark Twain

"Among you boys you have a game: you stand a row of bricks on end a few inches apart; you push a brick, it knocks its neighbor over, the neighbor knocks over the next brick—and so on till all the row is prostrate. That is human life. A child's first act knocks over the initial brick, and the rest will follow inexorably." —Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger 1 Mark Twain never wore black leather. There is nothing to attest that he ever asked to be whipped or beaten, and there is no record of his ever having attended an S&M club. His autobiography reveals no proclivity for sexual depravities or self-mutilation. By most definitions, Mark Twain was no masochist. Yet this essay will show the pervasiveness of masochistic scenes and themes in Twain's writing and seek to demonstrate that their origin lies in the deprivations he suffered at the hands of his mother, Jane Clemens, which led to unconscious fears of passivity, effeminization, and infantilization. Superimposed on this bedrock were Twain's ambivalent relationship with his father, John Clemens, and his guilt over the deaths of his siblings in childhood. The term "masochism" did not exist until 1886, the year that Twain celebrated his fifty-first birthday, when Richard von Krafft-Ebing introduced the notion to the world in Psychopathia Sexualis, where he defined it as "the perfect counterpart of sadism," a "peculiar perversion of the sexual life in which the individual affected, in sexual feeling and thought, is controlled [End Page 35] by the idea of being completely and unconditionally subject to the will of a person of the opposite sex" (1886, 86). Intriguingly, when Twain came to Vienna during his 1898 European tour, he had a conversation with Krafft-Ebing in which the two luminaries discussed the psychology of lynching and mob violence (Fisher 1922, 59–61). On this basis, along with the overwhelming popularity of the text, Carl Dolmetsch has concluded that "it seems quite unlikely Twain could have escaped reading Psychopathia Sexualis" (1992, 264). Freud, too, attended Twain's public reading in the Hapsburg capital. "I treated myself to listening to our old friend Mark Twain in person," he wrote to Wilhelm Fliess on February 9, 1898, "which was a sheer delight" (Masson 1985, 299). Indeed, according to Dolmetsch, "there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to indicate that Samuel Clemens and Dr. Freud probably met more than once in 1898 and that they may even have had a polite social acquaintance" (1992, 265). Dolmetsch further proposes that in Twain Freud found "a writer he found more useful for exemplifying his theories than any other in English save Shakespeare" (268). Freud's admiration for Twain finds repeated expression in his writings. When asked by Hugo Heller to list "ten good books," Freud (1907) included Twain's Sketches (246). In "The Uncanny" (1919), he interrupts a discussion of a frightening dream: "Or one may wander about in a dark, strange room, looking for the door or the electric switch, and collide time after time with the same piece of furniture—though it is true that Mark Twain succeeded by wild exaggeration in turning this latter situation into something irresistibly comic" (237). And in a footnote to Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud recalled his 1898 experience and cited Twain's story, "The First Melon I Ever Stole," to illustrate the "enhancing of morality as a consequence of ill-luck" (126). In critical studies of Twain, it is customary to emphasize the shift from the satirical humor of The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) to the brooding cynicism of his later works. Even in those texts that belong to his "light" period, however, Twain manifests a fascination with human psychology, including the relation between love and pain and between pleasure and...

What Kitty Knew

Framed by sensational Ripper stories that turned fact into �ction and lurid murder into gripping reading matter, the extraordinary popularity of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), George du Maurier's Trilby (1894), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) clearly indicate that the �n de si�cle was a time enthralled by the concept of split selves and sadistic impulses, of insidious male desires metaphorically and literally inscribed on the body of unconscious, hysterical, or hypnotized women. With his John Norton narratives of the late 1880s to mid 1890s, George Moore made a signi�cant contribution to this important cultural preoccupation in late-Victorian literature and culture. In this essay we trace the development of the theme in Moore's A Mere Accident (1887), Mike Fletcher (1889), and "John Norton" (which appeared in his collection Celibates, 1895). We read Moore's stories in the context of the emerging discourses of psychoanalysis and its reliance upon and relation to earlier work on the theories of the "double brain" and "multiplex personality". We also draw on works of late-nineteenth-century sexology-Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1910) and Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (�rst published in German, 1886)-in order to explore the psycho-sexual nature of the malaise that af�icts the Norton character and highlight his ambivalent role in the "accident" that befalls the vicar's daughter, Kitty Hare. In addition, we pay close attention to the proto-Freudian language of dreams that haunt Kitty in the aftermath of her assault, arguing that in his "John Norton" narratives Moore engaged with the evolving concept of trauma. These stories, we argue, re�ect an important and hitherto neglected aspect of late-Victorian narrative explorations of hysteria and sexual pathology.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis as Sexual Sourcebook for Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness

Psychopathia Sexualis (first published in German in 1886, in English in 1892) by the German sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1903) was amongst the first works in the new discipline to argue that homosexuality was part of nature and could thus not be condemned. Here the voices of real-life homosexuals were for the first time recorded, and these case studies led Krafft-Ebing to the belief that homosexuality was not an acquired vice. The idea of the ‘naturalness’ of homosexuality was at its time radical. Accordingly, the sexual knowledge was disseminated in a somewhat conspiratorial manner, as it was ostensibly directed solely at medical and legal practitioners ‘to exclude the lay reader’. The work nevertheless gained publicity far beyond the specialist realm. I argue that this was partly due to the fact that Krafft-Ebing’s medical book provided an exciting erotic stimulus. The real interest of many of its lay readers derived from its sexually explicit content, in other words Psychopathia Sexualis was a source for sexual kicks. This notion can be traced in Radclyffe Hall’s classic lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), where it shines a new light on the construction of the novel’s ‘sexually inverted’ protagonist.

Eros i pornografiia v russkoi kul'ture / Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture by M. s> Levitt A. Toporkov (review)

REVIEWS 339 (pp. I I- I2), continuing with 'what might have been' at Oranienbaum if the Reds had not taken it away (p. 43), and with Galitzines serving in the Chevalier Guards, evoked by the 'Dom Officers' (sic, cf. 'Dom Architects', pp. I60-63), and ending with the homage to the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin for whom Katya posed and with whom she worked, and the Galitzine Library, housed at no. 46 Fontanka (pp. 232-35). Although the book is aimed at what is usually called 'a wide audience', it is regrettable that the text is often so unreliable (look, for instance, at the opening lines on Thomas de Thomon's Stock Exchange, which is allegedly sited at the convergence of 'the Neva with her smaller tributary, the Nevka' [p. 50]). The book, however, lives by its evocation of the city's hidden splendour, and not, of course, of its squalor, and the familiar interiors of certain palaces, museums and libraries are found alongside a greater number of unfamiliar and unexpected ones, be they of the Admiralty and Mining Institute, of private apartments and closed institutions, or, indeed, of boiler rooms and bridges. Department ofSlavonicStudies ANTHONY CROSS Universityof Cambridge Levitt, MI. and Toporkov, A. Eros i pornografliav russkoikul'ture / Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture.Russkaia potaennaia literatura /Russian Forbidden Literature. Ladomir, Moscow, 1999. Notes. Illustrations. 701 pp. Price unknown. SCHOLARLY interest in Russian sex and pornography has emerged in several books during the last decade, but the present volume goes considerably further than any of its predecessors, such as, for example, L. Heller (ed.), Amouret Erotismedansla litterature russeduXXe siecle/ Liubov'i erotikav russkoiliterature XXogo 1eka (SEER, 7', I993, 2, P. 313) which it greatly exceeds not only in thematic scope but also in the eroticisim of its extensive array of pictures. This bilingual volume derives from a conference held at the University of Southern California in I998 and contains thirty-one papers, and I65 black and wvlhite and thirty-nine colour illustrations. There are too many of each to enumerate them all in the space of a review, but the articles fall into six categories. 'Pornography before Pornography' consists of pieces on the lubok and other forms of visual and oral folk art. 'Porn in the Age of Enlightenment', unsurprisingly, pays particular attention to Barkov (already featured in the first two volumes of the 'Russian Forbidden Literature' series), and to Catherine the Great (as 'Porn Queen', in John Alexander's jokey title [p. 237]). 'Porn and the Silver Age in Russia' deals with Rozanov, Kuzmin, Artsybashev(!), and the erotic art of Konstantin Somov. 'Psychopathia sexualis' consists of three disparate articles ranging from Tolstoi's conflicting sexual attitudes to early twentieth-century law, and to science in the I920S. 'Pornography and the Law' is concerned with pornography's legal positioin in the present day. And, finally, 'Porn in Russia Today' contains seven articles of which the majority, though mostly written by women, are specifically concernied wvith (heterosexual) men's problems and interests. Also in this section is an interesting article on prison folklore, anida piece by the anecdote 340 SEER, 79, 2, 200I collector Emil Draitseron 'ContemporaryRussianJokelore as Pornography' (pp.590-604). Many of the pictures are from the collection of the bibliophile L. V. Bessmertnykh who provides a note on the edition of Somov's Bookof the Marquis,firstpublished in Germany, and now brought to a wider audience than that of 'specialistreaders'.Forthis reviewer, one of the most interesting aspectsof Somov, as representedhere, is the differentvariantshe was wont to make of essentiallythe same picture. For instance, two drawingsof Daphnis and Chloe, shown in one discreetly covered with fronds, in another with genitals in full view (figs 74-75); another similarexample is his 'Le coucher' (figs83-84). The extensive collection of coloured erotic pictures are by Ivan Semenovich Efimov (I878-I959); they appear, incidentally, to have been bound in the wrong order,with figs30-39 coming between figs i 3 and 14. Perhapsnaturally,in view of its dual theme, this volume is very varied in tone. Though all the articles are scholarly and most are entirely sober sociology, history or literarycriticism,others allow themselvesa modicum of levity:the title of Helena...

Jack London's New Woman: A Little Lady With a Big Stick

Jack London's New Woman:A Little Lady With a Big Stick Andrew J. Furer Andrew J. Furer University of California-Berkeley Notes . My thanks to Donald McQuade and Arthur Riss for their insightful and generous comments on previous versions of this essay, and to Leonard Cassuto for the opportunity to present an initial version on his panel at the 1993 ALA. I am also indebted to Earle Labor and Jeanne C. Reesman for many enlightening conversations about London and gender, and to Sara S. Hodson of the Huntington Library and the late Russ Kingman of the Jack London Research Center for their help with archival materials. 1. Anonymous, "An Elemental Maid," The Literary Digest, 26 (1903), 60. 2. See, for example, Clarke, Sex in Education (1873), and Beard, American Nervousness (1881). See also James C. Whorton, Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1982), pp. 150-53. 3. Martha Banta, Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1987), p. 88. See also Patricia Marks, Bicycles, Bangs and Bloomers: The New Woman in the Popular Press (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1990), and Banta, p. 90. Marks notes that while American popular opinion became more tolerant of the New Woman as time passed, anxieties about her mannish tendencies persisted as she continued to push for "all the advantages of her brothers . . . [including] education and careers" (Marks, p. 2). Depictions of the athletic New Woman also appear in such imperialist novels as Richard Harding Davis's Soldiers of Fortune (1897), whose heroine, Hope Langham, is an able horsewoman possessed of ample physical courage. For a discussion of New Woman athleticism in popular 1890s novels set in a romantic past or romanticized present, see Amy Kaplan, "Romancing the Empire: The Embodiment of American Masculinity in the Popular Historical Novel of the 1890s," ALH, 2 (1990), 671-75. Kaplan notes that such novels "elicit the desire for liberation from domestic constraints through adventure and physical activity" (p. 675). 4. See Whorton, p. 153, and Kaplan, p. 674. Donald Mrozek has noted that "the absence of self control which led to sexual depravity was too easily confused with that sensual expressiveness which had its outlet in sport ... the manner of [women's] sport and athletic practice ... assumed a moral intonation." Mrozek, "The 'Amazon' and the American 'Lady': Sexual Fears of Women as Athletes," in J. A. Mangan and Roberta J. Park, eds., From "Fair Sex" to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era (London: Frank Cass, 1987), p. 286. 5. According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "a new social and political drama" had opened, centered on the highly educated, single and economically independent New Woman, who constituted a "revolutionary demographic and political phenomenon." Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985; repr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 266, 245. The second generation of New Women, educated in the 1890s, combined a subversion of gender conventions with a rejection of "bourgeois sexual norms," and desired to be "as successful, as political, as sexual as men" (p. 177). 6. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct, trans. F. J. Rebman (1st German ed., 1886; Brooklyn: Physicians & Surgeons Book Co., 1908), pp. 334-35. 7. Stockham (1833-1912) was a Chicago physician and author of numerous books on women's health. See Stockham, Tokology: A Book for Every Woman (1886; rev. ed., Chicago: Sanitary Publishing Co., 1887), and Karezza: Ethics of Marriage (1896; rev. ed., New York: R. F. Fenno, 1903). See also Mrozek, p. 285. 8. Ellis, "Sexual Inversion in Women," Alienist and Neurologist, 16 (1895), 153. See also William Lee Howard, "Effeminate Men and Masculine Women," New York Medical Journal, 71 (1900), 687, and Whorton, p. 153. Howard classes as "degenerates" the "female sexual pervert" and the "female possessed of masculine ideas of independence." 9. Sam S. Baskett, "Sea Change in The Sea-Wolf," ALR, 24 (1992), 5-6. See also Charles N. Watson, The Novels of Jack London: A Critical Reappraisal (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1983), who discusses London's attempts to represent a...

Psychopathia sexualis: Stevenson's Strange Case

Critical QuarterlyVolume 28, Issue 1 p. 93-108 Psychopathia sexualis: Stevenson's Strange Case STEPHEN HEATH, STEPHEN HEATH Jesus College, Cambridge.Search for more papers by this author STEPHEN HEATH, STEPHEN HEATH Jesus College, Cambridge.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1986 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1986.tb00248.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume28, Issue1March 1986Pages 93-108 RelatedInformation

“Swinging in the park”

Death during autoerotic episodes is of special concern to law enforcement officials, the coroner or medical examiner, the family of the decedent, and to society as a whole. As in the probing of any violent demise, accurate preservation of all evidentiary material, complete photographic documentation, reconstruction of the scene, and interviews with family and acquaintances ("psychological autopsy") are mandatory for proper completion of the case. A recent, atypical instance of sexual asphyxia arising from a bizarre incident exemplifies the foregoing dicta and provides a vivid example of "psychopathia sexualis."

L'esprit, la vérité et l'histoire (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 283 with his intention to kill himself, finds therein a common point of contact and identifies himself with Jerusalem to whom he lends his own motives of his love affair. By means of this phantasy he protects himself against the effect of his experience. Thus Shakespeare is right in his conjunction of poetry with "fine frenzy." According to the editor, Ernst Kris, who provides an excellent preface to the whole volume and very knowledgeable footnotes, Freud developed the above ideas in Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Der Wahn und die Triiume in W. Jensens "Gradiva" (1907), and Der Dichter und dos Phantasieren (1908). Another "note" in the same enclosure gives a "Definition of the Holy": "Holy" is that which consists in the fact that men have sacrificed a part of their freedom of sexual perversion for the good of a larger community. The abhorrence of incest (wicked) is based on the fact that as a result of sexual promiscuity (also in childhnod) the members of the fainily continuously hohl together and become unable to join strangers. It is therefore antisocial. Culture consists in this permanent renunciation. As against this the "superman." Kris comments thus: "This seems to be the earliest formulation of Freud's view that the process of civilization is inimical to drives (Triebfeindlichkeit). It was later on expressed in The "cultural" sexual murder and the modern nervousness (1908), in Totem and Taboo (1912-13), in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1929) and in Why War? (1932). This shows clearly, however, that Freud regards the philosophy of Nietzsche as a revulsion against the process of civilization as such, or as one of the symptoms of this revulsion. In a letter of January 1, 1898 (p. 209), Freud gives a definition of happiness: "Happiness is the subsequent fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. Therefore riches bring one very little happiness. Money is no child-wish." "Prehistoric" means here the stage of early unremembered childhood. Freud is a rigorous determinist, and he states in a supplement to a letter of August 27, 1899: "There is nothing arbitrary or undetermined in the psychical." This determinacy concerns even such trivial facts as why Freud imagined the figure of 2467. The self-critical acumen of Freud is remarkable. In a letter of October 31, 1895, shortly after the writing of the Draft of a Psychology, he writes to Fliess (about the latter's ideas): "First impression: Surprise that there is one man who is still more of a visionary than myself and that this happens to be my friend Wilhelm" (p. 116). Freud employs here the expression "Phantast" (for visionary) which means that his own (Freud's) ideas and those of Fliess are "phantastic." This is of course primarily a criticism of Fliess. Professor Kraft-Ebbing (author of Psychopathia sexualis and head of the clinic of nervous diseases in Vienna), who was friendly to Freud and helped him to gain the title of professor of the university but remained sceptical--just as did Breuer--called Freud's theory "a scientific tale" (ein wissenschaftliches Miirchen). MAX RIESER New York City L'esprit, la verit~ et l'histoire. By Giovanni Gentile. Trans. by Joseph Moreau. (Paris: Aubier, 1962. Pp. 331.) Giovanni Gentile (1875--1944), the most thorough-going Hegelian in the whole history of Western philosophy, suffered decline in Italy on the eve of World War II (primarily for political reasons), but in recent years a return to Gentile the philosopher has been increasingly noticeable there and elsewhere. Proof of this renewed interest is the above French edition of Gentile, which is a collection of excerpts from his systematic writings, selected by an indefatigable disciple, Vito A. Bellezza. 284 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Although this is not the first time that Gentile has been translated into French (a major work of his, L'esprit, acte pur, was published in Paris in 1925), the fact remains nevertheless that his neo-Hegelian system of philosophy fell on deaf ears originally in France, due to the predominance then of Bergsonism and positivi.sm in different areas of French thought. However, as Michele F. Sciacca (another commentator on Gentile) notes in the Preface, the Gentilian system of "actual idealism" should get...

The Physiology of Love

DR. KATSAINOS cannot be said to have contributed any great advance to our knowledge in the work under notice. He is somewhat intolerant of the views of others and shows a lack of the critical faculty in his discussion, allowing his emotions to run away with him. To attribute homosexuality to satiety with heterodox sex cravings shows a very superficial knowledge of up-to-date psychopathology, and this is confirmed when we find him attributing Psychopathia Sexualis to Freud! One would hesitate to compare dyspepsia to what the author pleases to call dyseros—surely this is a travesty of physiological principles. The book leaves a feeling of dissatisfaction.

The Lust of Slander.

Roselle, Ill., Sept. 14, 1903. To the Editor: —In possible explanation of the accusation, referred to in your editorial, The Lust of Slander, inThe Journal, September 12, permit me to suggest that Leffingwell has made to serve his purpose a statement which, in itself true and authenticated, does in no wise refer to vivisectors and their work. Krafft-Ebing, in his Psychopathia Sexualis, page 84 et seq., says, in discussing sadism: In numerous cases, sadistically perverse men, that are afraid of criminal acts with human beings, or that care only for the sight of the suffering of a sensitive being, make use of the sight of dying animals, or torture animals, to stimulate or excite their lust. (Then follow some cases.) Thus, in these and similar cases, the vita sexualis is so constituted, ab origine , that the sight of blood, death, etc., excites lustful feeling. I think it very

Recent Literature Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct . A Medico-Forensic Study. By R. von Krafft-Ebing. The only authorized English translation of the tenth German edition. pp. xv, 585. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co. 1900.

Recent Literature Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct . A Medico-Forensic Study. By R. von Krafft-Ebing. The only authorized English translation of the tenth German edition. pp. xv, 585. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co. 1900.

Recent Literature Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study . By Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing. Authorized Translation by Charles G. Craddock, M.D. pp. 436. Philadelphia and London. 1893.

Recent Literature Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study . By Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing. Authorized Translation by Charles G. Craddock, M.D. pp. 436. Philadelphia and London. 1893.

Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study. By Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Vienna. Authorized Translation of the Seventh Enlarged and Revised German Edition, by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis; Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine;

<i>Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study.</i> By Dr. R. Von Krafft-Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Vienna. Authorized Translation of the Seventh Enlarged and Revised German Edition, by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis; Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine;

Psychopathia Sexualis with special reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-legal Study. by Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Authorised translation by Charles Gilbert Craddoch, M.D. The F. A. Davis Company, Publishers. 1892.

There are many unsavoury subjects which have to be considered in medical practice, especially when that is carried on among the insane. The lower animal nature in some patients shows itself often in all its simple beastliness. Yet we do not think, in England, at least, that it is well that such subjects should be fully considered in books which may be bought of any bookseller. Perhaps we are prudish, but we think that the production of this book by Ebing will not add to his reputation, nor will it do any possible good to the medical or the psychological world.

Von Krafft-Ebing.—Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: a Medico-Legal Study. By Prof.R. Vox Krafft-Ebixg Authorized Translation from the seventh enlarged and revised German Edition. By Dr. Chaddock Charles Gilbert Philadelphia and London: The F. A. Davis Company. 1892. Pp. 436.

Von Krafft-Ebing.—Psychopathia Sexualis, with especial reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: a Medico-Legal Study. By Prof.R. Vox Krafft-Ebixg Authorized Translation from the seventh enlarged and revised German Edition. By Dr. Chaddock Charles Gilbert Philadelphia and London: The F. A. Davis Company. 1892. Pp. 436.