The difficulties of translation have not been slight; but minor errors cannot destroy the author’s meaning.

For much encouragement in the work of translation my gratitude to Dr. James G. Kiernan and Dr. G. Frank Lydston, of Chicago, both well-known investigators in this domain of psychopathology, is here expressed; and to Dr. William A. Stone, Assistant Superintendent at the Michigan Asylum, Kalamazoo, I am greatly indebted for assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.

Charles Gilbert Chaddock.

St. Louis, Mo.,

November, 1892.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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I.Fragment of a Psychology of the Sexual Life,[1]
Power of the sexual instinct,[1]
Sexuality as the foundation of ethical feeling,[1]
Love as a passion,[2]
History of development of sexuality,[2]
Modesty,[2]
Christianity,[4]
Monogamy,[4]
Woman’s place in Islam,[5]
Sensuality and morality,[5]
Decadence of sexual morality,[6]
Development of sexual feelings in the individual; puberty,[7]
Sensuality and religious enthusiasm,[9]
Relations between the spheres of religion and sexuality,[9]
Sensuality and art,[10]
Idealizing tendency of first love,[11]
True love,[11]
Sentimentality,[11]
Platonic love,[12]
Love and friendship,[12]
Difference between male and female love,[13]
Celibacy,[14]
Unfaithfulness,[15]
Marriage,[15]
Desire for adornment,[16]
Facts of physiological fetichism,[17]
Religious and erotic fetichism,[17]
Eyes, odors, voices, and mental qualities as fetiches,[21]
Hair, hand, and foot of woman as fetiches,[22]
II.Physiology,[23]
Sexual maturity,[23]
Duration of sexual instinct,[23]
Sexual sense,[24]
Localization (?),[24]
Physiological development of sexuality,[24]
Erection; erection-centre,[24]
Sexuality and the olfactory sense,[26]
Flagellation an excitant of sexual desire,[28]
Sects of flagellants,[28]
Paullini’s “Flagellum Salutis,”[29]
Erogenous zones,[31]
Control of the sexual instinct,[32]
Cohabitation,[32]
Ejaculation,[33]
III.General Pathology,[34]
Frequency and importance of pathological manifestations,[34]
Schema of the sexual neuroses,[34]
Spinal neuroses,[35]
Cerebral neuroses,[36]
Paradoxia sexualis,[37]
Anæsthesia sexualis (congenital),[42]
Anæsthesia sexualis (acquired),[47]
Hyperæsthesia sexualis,[48]
Paræsthesia sexualis,[56]
Perversion and perversity,[56]
Sadism,[57]
An attempt to explain sadism,[57]
Sadistic lust-murder,[62]
Anthropophagy,[64]
Violation of corpses,[67]
Injury of women,[70]
Defilement of women,[79]
Symbolic sadism,[81]
Sadism with any object,[82]
Whipping of boys,[82]
Sadistic acts with animals,[84]
Sadism in woman,[87]
Masochism,[89]
Relation of passive flagellation to masochism,[101]
Ideal masochism,[115]
Symbolic masochism,[116]
Rousseau,[119]
Larvated masochism,[123]
Feminine masochism,[137]
An attempt to explain masochism,[139]
Masochism and sadism,[148]
Fetichism,[152]
Part of the female body as a fetich,[157]
Female attire as a fetich,[167]
Special materials as fetiches,[180]
Contrary sexual instinct, or homo-sexuality,[185]
Acquired homo-sexuality,[188]
Simple reversal of sexual feeling,[191]
Eviration and defemination,[197]
Transition to metamorphosis sexualis paranoica,[202]
Metamorphosis sexualis paranoica,[216]
Congenital homo-sexuality,[222]
Psychical hermaphroditism,[230]
Urnings,[255]
Effemination and viraginity,[279]
Androgyny and gynandry,[304]
Diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy of contrary sexuality,[319]
IV.Special Pathology,[358]
Pathological sexuality in the various forms of mental disease,[358]
Imbecility,[359]
Dementia,[361]
Paretic dementia,[363]
Epilepsy,[364]
Periodical insanity,[370]
Psychopathia sexualis periodica,[371]
Mania,[372]
Satyriasis and nymphomania,[373]
Melancholia,[374]
Hysteria,[375]
Paranoia,[376]
V.Pathological Sexuality in its Legal Aspects,[378]
Dangers to society from sexual crimes,[378]
Increase of sexual crimes,[378]
Causes,[378]
Defective appreciation of such crimes by jurists,[379]
Conditions necessary to remove legal responsibility,[381]
Exhibition,[382]
Violation of statues,[396]
Rape and lust-murder,[397]
Bodily injury, injury to property, and torture of animals dependent on sadism,[401]
Fetichism,[401]
Violation of children,[402]
Sodomy,[404]
Pederasty,[408]
Cultivated pederasty,[414]
Social life of pederasts,[415]
Ball of the woman-haters,[417]
Pædicatio mulierum,[420]
Lesbian love,[428]
Necrophilia,[430]
Incest,[431]
Immoral acts with persons in the care of others,[432]

I. A FRAGMENT
OF A
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL LIFE.

The propagation of the human species is not committed to accident or to the caprice of the individual, but made secure in a natural instinct, which, with all-conquering force and might, demands fulfillment. In the gratification of this natural impulse are found not only sensual pleasure and sources of physical well-being, but also higher feelings of satisfaction in perpetuating the single, perishable existence, by the transmission of mental and physical attributes to a new being. In coarse, sensual love, in the lustful impulse to satisfy this natural instinct, man stands on a level with the animal; but it is given to him to raise himself to a height where this natural instinct no longer makes him a slave: higher, nobler feelings are awakened, which, notwithstanding their sensual origin, expand into a world of beauty, sublimity, and morality.

On this height man overcomes his natural instinct, and from an inexhaustible spring draws material and inspiration for higher enjoyment, for more earnest work, and the attainment of the ideal. Maudsley (Deutsche Klinik, 1873, 2, 3) rightly calls the sexual feeling the foundation for the development of the social feeling. “Were man to be robbed of the instinct of procreation and all that arises from it mentally, nearly all poetry and, perhaps, the entire moral sense as well, would be torn from his life.”