Erotic art ought not to become a hospital for perverts and sexual patients, and should not lead these individuals to regard themselves as interesting specimens of the human race.
In the life of saints there is always the question of sexual temptations, in which the most elevated and ideal sentiments are mixed with the most repugnant erotic images.
In the latter case especiallyerotic images of naked women or female sexual organs is associated with onanism.
The Songs of Solomon, the original sense of which was very lay, like that of most religious matters, has been made allegorical and applied to the Christian Church, but it was and will always remain an erotic poem.
In this connection, erotic subjects play a sad and powerful part.
No doubt such works may have an eroticaction on ignorant and low-minded persons.
To one versed in the psychology and manifestations of the sex instinct this can only mean one thing, namely, that we are dealing here with a homosexual whoseerotic receptors were concentrated in the anal region, with an anal-erotic.
In addition to the autoerotic gratifications spoken of above, the child is now capable of the choice of a love-object accompanied by erotic feelings.
However that may be, his idea was to make Nijinsky compose, under his own strict supervision, a sort of antique tableau conjuring up the erotic gambols of a faun importuning nymphs.
If the dream, which is the expression of some erotic desire, succeeds in making its manifest content appear innocently asexual, it is only possible in one way.
Whosoever has firmly accepted this censorship as the chief motive for the distortion of dreams will not be surprised to learn as the result of dream interpretation that most of the dreams of adults are traced by analysis to erotic desires.
We have already asserted elsewhere that dreams which are conspicuously innocent invariably embody coarse erotic wishes, and we might confirm this by means of numerous fresh examples.
And unconsciously there blends with these memories another erotic enthusiasm of a more recent date, another form, that of the fully matured Ingeborg--not Anna Myhrman, whose footsteps are heard in the adjoining room.
Later he accustomed himself to a more matter-of-fact mode of contemplation and practice in erotic matters.
He was a friend of anecdotes and stories of the manner of Rabelais, and in his books the erotic illusion was grasped by him with quite as hardy hands as all other illusions.
First of all, he removes everything that from an erotic point of view could give offence to a reader, above all, to a lady reader of his day.
But the most famous and on the whole the most interesting of the effusions in the 'Anthology' are the erotic verses addressed to Laura.
The phenomena presented by erotic dreams, alike in normal and abnormal persons, are somewhat complex, and dreams are by no means a sure guide to the dreamer's real sexual attitude.
I have only had erotic dreams three or four times in my life.
His erotic dreams have been of only the vaguest and most shadowy character.
His erotic dreams have always been of men and especially of boys; he has never dreamed sexually of women.
We may associate this with the high erotic development of birds, the difficulty with which tumescence seems to occur in them, and their long courtships.
To pay or to be paid kills every sort of erotic feeling in me and always has done so.
He does not appear to have well-marked erotic dreams.
Therefore, the analogy with erotic fetichism does not bring much help to those who argue that inversion is purely acquired.
Such an object calls out a whole series of wanton imaginations, which it could not do in one who, by his environment, was already armed against any tendencies to erotic fetichism.
A feature of this epidemic was the absence of coarse and erotic speech or gestures.
This general explanation was necessary in order to explain to some extent the conception of the erotic conflict in analytical psychology.
In the neurosis there are two erotic inclinations which stand in a fixed antithesis to each other, and one of these at least is unconscious.
When Freud came to the opinion that a hidden erotic conflict forms the real root of the neurosis, the trauma lost its pathogenic significance.
I called Mr. X's attention to the fact that in my opinion an erotic conflict was concealed in the dream, and asked him point blank whether he had taken part in a love story.
If we consider this in the light of the chosen example, we see that this conflict contains plenty of abnormal moments, and at first sight does not suffer comparison with an ordinary erotic conflict.
Most people, however, are inclined to believe that the erotic is not so widespread.
Next in order came the study of the question of the erotic conflict.
Many patients think that the erotic conflict does not exist for them; in their opinion the sexual question is nonsense; they have no sexual feeling.
As a result of the dominant morals, wishes which are not sufficiently noticed by our waking consciousness and which attempt to realize themselves symbolically in the dream are as a rule of an erotic nature.
Lovely), the muse of erotic poetry and elegy, represented with a lyre in her left hand.
He was distracted in his mind, and took much delight in hearing discourses on erotic subjects, and the bright form of his necklaced and painted beloved was the sole idol in his breast.
Their arms with the crooked joints of the wrists and loins, and composed of hard bones in the inside, are compared with creeping plants, by their infatuated admirers and erotic poets.
This has no moral quality whatever, for it is not exercised as a useful discipline, but merely enforced in order to heighten the economic and erotic value of the women.
So far as it has any validity it lies within a sphere of erotic perversity which cannot be taken into consideration in an estimation of moral values.
I had known erotic feelings, but they had not arisen from the sight of the naked body, but gradually blossomed from the union of our souls.
Such a movement could not fail to make itself felt, for all that favors facility and luxurious softness in sexual matters is quickly felt to degrade character as well as to diminish the finest erotic satisfaction.
The sexual act is important from the point of view of erotic art, not only from the ignorance and prejudices which surround it, but also because it has a real value even in regard to the psychic side of married life.
The question is debated from time to time as to how far it is possible for men and women to have intimate friendships with each other outside the erotic sphere.
In the same way chastity, far from involving sexual abstinence, only has its value when it is brought within the erotic sphere.
Pure erotic poetry appeared after Islam with the luxury that spread with the growth of wealth, but the nasib continued to be used, especially in eulogies.
Thus suppressed erotic impulses influenced the patriotism of Joan of Arc.
Arabic literature made the love or erotic note in its tender or chivalrous phase, fashionable.
The love story of one of the Arabian erotic poets of the period, Majnun, was celebrated by the great Persian poet, Nidhami, who flourished in the twelfth century.
He was youthful and his symbols were animals like the goat, ass, bull, tiger, lion, all of which had erotic significance.
I have fully stated in my The Erotic Motive in Literature the psychoanalytical view of poetry which regards it as the poet's creation of a world in accordance with his fancy to compensate himself for his repressions.
The ecstasy of the revellers at the rites was poetic ecstasy, for it was an unconscious or conscious erotic nature manifesting itself in the form of a religious rite.
Most of the verses ascribed to them are erotic poetry of an amatory character, full of the most extravagant expressions of devotion of which language is capable, and yet the greater part of it hardly bearing translation.
Their poetry was impromptu, impassioned, and chiefly of the elegiac and erotic type.
The erotic properties of truffles and mushrooms are considered by most writers as better established than those of fish.
In the 15th century the mandrake enjoyed in Italy so great a reputation as an erotic stimulant, that the celebrated Macchiavelli wrote a much admired comedy upon it, called "La Mandragora.
It is not daring, therefore, to infer theerotic starting-point.
When, for example, the Italian positivists repeatedly assert that woman is less erotic and more sexual, they mean that man cares more about the satisfaction of the sexual impulse, woman about the maternal instinct.
My erotic inconvenience made me very uncomfortable, my mind felt deeply the consciousness of my degradation, and I did not possess a groat!
He was an amusing rogue, knowing by heart a quantity of erotic songs and of smutty stories which he could tell in the most laughable manner.
What a sight for a young man of fifteen like me, whom the old man admitted as the only and silent witness of these erotic scenes!
My slight erotic inconvenience, by compelling me to follow the diet necessary to my cure, most likely saved me from greater misfortunes which, perhaps, I should not have been able to avoid.
She said yes, and instead of repulsing my caresses she proceeded to accompany my actions with the recital of erotic verses.
All these erotic pictures have fired my imagination, and it is in your garb of a saint that you must administer the remedy that my love requires.
I had scarcely been with my two sweethearts for an hour when the syndic interrupted my erotic exploits by begging me to go.
First, while showing a perplexed expression but with fair orientation, she gave utterance to erotic and expansive fancies.
For example, there are religious and erotic fancies or ambitious schemes dominating the thoughts of manic patients, fears of aggression and injury met with in anxiety cases, and so on.
These references were, however, quite isolated, so that the erotic formed a very small part of her productions.
For instance, every one is familiar with ideas of wickedness and inadequacy in depression, ideas of violence in anxiety, or expansive and erotic fancies in manic states.
She had to be kept in the continuous bath, talked continuously, whistled, sang, was markedly erotic towards the physician, careless in exposing herself and often obscene in her talk.
Quite remarkable was the fact that she then told of variouserotic experiences in her life, though with a distinctly moral attitude and minimizing them.
So we have thoughts of the death of the mother or husband, another rival, considerable preoccupation with Heaven, and also erotic fancies.
In art, detail was industriously cultivated; but its naturalism, especially as to undraped figures, was due to a sensuous refinement of gallantry and erotic feeling.
In French literature he stood alone; the descriptions of landscape before him were either borrowed blossoms of antiquity or sentimental and erotic pastorals.
So little, however, is left of his erotic poems that no definite opinion can be formed about them.
More than any other composition of the rhetorical age of Greek literature, it attempts a comprehensive treatment of erotic passion, and sums up the teaching of the doctors and the predilections of the vulgar in one treatise.
Daphnaeus, in the erotic dialogue of Plutarch, arrives at a similar conclusion; and, in an essay on education, the same author contends that no prudent father would allow the sages to enter into intimacy with his sons.
Lysias, according to Suidas, was the author of five eroticepistles adressed to young men.
The nakedness, which Greek custom permitted in gymnastic games and some religious rites, no doubt contributed to the erotic force of masculine passion; and the history of their feeling upon this point deserves notice.
I select the Vita Nuova as the most eminent example of mediaevalerotic mysticism.
At the same time, he declares himself upon the side of temperate and generous affection and strives to utilise the erotic enthusiasm as a motive power in the direction of philosophy.
For that matter, I fail to see anything so spiritual inerotic phenomena.
And so is the romantic lover, who is fashioned by the love traditions which come down to him and by the erotic literature to which he has access.
And she went upon her knees, while the erotic blackguard placed his dirty hands upon her head, and, raising his eyes to Heaven, pretended to place upon her his benediction.
After Madame Violle had been initiated into the secrets of the erotic sect, the whole party sat down to tea, when a photograph was taken by one of the ladies, which showed Madame Violle seated by the "holy Father.
Every action of the monk was that of an arrogant and erotic swindler.
