According to classical psychoanalytic theory, sadism as a sexual perversion is a regression and fixation to unrepressed infantile sexual desire, with emphasis on sadistic partial drives, but it is also considered to have a defensive meaning against castration anxiety and self-destructive tendencies (masochistic tendencies). On the other hand, psychiatrist V. von Gebsattel, who takes an anthropological stance, argues that in sadists, as in other addicts, a challenge to the norm produces satisfaction, and that at the root of this lies a self-destructive tendency. He believes that sadistic acts bring about an increase in the sense of the self, and that such changes in sensation are repeatedly sought. *Some of the terminology that mentions "Gebsattel, V. von" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 古典的精神分析理論に従えば,性倒錯としてのサディズムも抑圧を欠く幼児性欲への退行ならびに固着で,しかもサディスティックな部分欲動が強調されたものであるが,去勢不安と自己破壊的傾向(マゾヒズム的傾向)とに対する防衛的意味をもつものとされる。一方,人間学的立場をとる精神医学者ゲープザッテルV.von Gebsattelは,サディストにおいては他の嗜癖者と同じく規範への挑戦が満足を生み,その根底には自己破壊的傾向が潜んでいると説く。そしてサディスティックな行為が自己自身の感覚の増大を生じ,そのような感覚の変化が反復して求められるようになるのだと考える。… ※「Gebsattel,V.von」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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