A Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Masochism

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The masochist stresses the denial of penislessness in women or denial of castration danger. The masochistic perversion originates in early traumatic events involving a mixture of prohibition, seduction, and reassurance. "The essential mechanism underlying the masochistic perversion is that, by inducing the sexual partner to enact a scene of castration threat or punishment, the masochist forces the prohibiting, threatening parent to annul and undo the rebuff and the castration threat through its simulated repetition while actually participating in the veiled incestuous gratification. The masochistic scene is thus a means of gratifying the forbidden, repressed incestuous fantasies but with the castration threat undone." 92 references.

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