It is not only the urine and the fæces which may thus acquire a symbolic fascination and attractiveness under the influence of masochistic deviations of sexual idealization.
Masochistic and sadistic modes of sensibility are frequently associated in the same individual.
It must be regarded as definitely established that children sometimes deliberately incur corporal punishment in order to enjoy masochistic sexual sensations.
Well known, too, is the case of Rousseau, of which I shall have to speak again later; this writer traces his masochistic perversion back to the seventh year of his life.
The case has also been recorded of a masochistic man who found sexual satisfaction in masturbating while a woman, by his instructions, addressed him in the lowest possible terms of abuse.
In the preceding case there were no masochistic ideas; it is likely that in such a case beating is desired largely on account of that purely physical effect to which attention has already been called.
It may, indeed, be said that passion in its more lyric exaltations almost necessarily involves some resort to masochistic expression.
Krafft-Ebing points out that some of the most delicate and romantic love-episodes of the Middle Ages are distinctly colored bymasochistic emotion.
This seems to indicate that the impulse was in its origin masochistic as much as sadistic, and better described as algolagnia than as sadism.
During the period of masochistic tendency, they were masochistic in character; otherwise they have been dreams simply of the naked embrace.
There may be a slight and normal masochistic tendency in most boys, and perhaps the erogenic character of the buttocks has something to do with the development of affection.
In this case the perverse phenomena were masochistic rather than sadistic.
He who in the unconscious is an exhibitionist is at the same time a voyeur, he who suffers from sadistic feelings as a result of repression will also show another reinforcement of the symptoms from the source of masochistic tendencies.
Analysis of extreme cases of masochistic perversions show that there is a coöperation of a large series of factors which exaggerate and fix the original passive sexual attitude (castration complex, conscience).
In the sexual make-up of many people there is a masochistic component, which has arisen through the conversion of the aggressive, sadistic component into its opposite.
It also plays at times the same part as masochistic nightmares, filling as it does, the body with glycogen and a sense of power.
Children of the masochistic type like to have some one tell them stories of the most nightmarish variety which fill them with terror.
But the only point we are trying to make here, namely, the fundamental fact of the expression of masochistic impulses, is as evidently shown in the purgatory as in the millennium concept.
The masochistic element was a vital factor in Chiliasm; without it almost the whole force of 'the thousand years reign of the saints' is lost.
But whatever the conceptual images employed to give expression to the masochistic impulse, that impulse was psychologically the same.
Undoubtedly some of the masochistic values of Chiliasm were taken over by the various, previously mentioned concepts that combined to make up the idea of the Catholic Church.
Organized monachism furnished a more convenient outlet for the strongermasochistic impulses than Chiliasm and so superseded it.
Our problem, then, is to discover how the declension of Chiliasm is to be explained by the transfer of the masochistic element in it to other vehicles of expression.
The relation to the father is the strongest and most momentous issue; its masochistic homosexual colouring stands out clearly everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masochistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
