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 Translation for 'masochism' from English to Croatian
NOUN   masochism | -
psih.
mazohizam {m}
masochism
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Translation for 'masochism' from English to Croatian

masochism
mazohizam {m}psih.
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Usage Examples English
  • Their work often incorporates themes of masochism.
  • He is noted for his insistence on the universality of unconscious masochism.
  • Both Krafft-Ebing and Freud assumed that sadism in men resulted from the distortion of the aggressive component of the male sexual instinct. Masochism in men, however, was seen as a more significant aberration, contrary to the nature of male sexuality.
  • Historically, masochism has been associated with feminine submissiveness.
  • Seeking further potential clinical support for the existence of such a self-destructive force, Freud found it through a reconsideration of his views of masochism—previously "regarded as sadism that has been turned round upon the subject's own ego"—so as to allow that "there "might" be such a thing as primary masochism—a possibility which I had contested" before.

  • On sado-masochism, "Stekel has described the essence of the sadomasochistic act to be humiliation".
  • Reik is best known for psychoanalytic studies of psychotherapeutic listening, masochism, criminology, literature, and religion.
  • The anthropologist Eric Dingwall wrote a chapter on Pazzi's alleged masochism and flagellant behaviors in "Very Peculiar People" (1962).
  • "A Defence of Masochism" is a 1998 non-fiction book by Anita Phillips covering the topic of BDSM, which offers philosophical and sociological arguments for the virtues of masochism.
  • In 1905, Sigmund Freud described sadism and masochism in his "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" as diseases developing from an incorrect development of the child psyche and laid the groundwork for the scientific perspective on the subject in the following decades.

  • There is limited empirical research on diagnoses that are common with sexual masochism disorder.
  • Greenwald's research found that prostitutes utilized defense mechanisms to cope with their profession, which included masochism, and denying to themselves that they were having sex.
  • In the late 18th century, such works as "Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue" and "120 Days of Sodom" by the Marquis de Sade were exemplars of the theme of sado-masochism and influenced later erotic accounts of sadism and masochism in fiction.
  • The terms sadism and masochism are the giving and receiving of emotional or mental pain.
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