Main description:

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts, and explores the relationship between sadomasochism and depression; its relationship to psychosis, borderline states, and many other conditions.

Contents:

Forewords -- Introduction -- A precursor -- Problems of terminology and definition -- Sadomasochism and depression -- Feminine masochism, or the case of the Wolf Man -- Ascetic masochism -- The clinical area of perversion -- Theories of sadomasochistic perversion -- After the theories -- Areas of contiguity -- Infantile trauma and perversion -- Final notes on the three paradigms -- Psychoanalytic therapy of the perversions -- Evil and pleasure: a psychoanalytic view