Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXholism are possible.While the average insensitive personmay fail to perceive them at all, for the more alert andimaginative lover they are a fascinating part of the highlycharged crystallization of passion.A more nervously exceptionalperson, when once such a symbolism has becomefirmly implanted, may find it an absolutely essentialelement in the charm of a beloved and charming person.Finally, for the individual who is thoroughly unsoundthe symbol becomes generalized; a person is no longerdesired at all, being merely regarded as an appendage ofthe symbol, or being dispensed with altogether; thesymbol is alone desired, and is fully adequate to impartby itself complete sexual gratification. While it may beconsidered a morbid state to demand a symbol as an almostessential part of the charm of a desired person, itonly in the final condition, in which the symbol becomesall-sufficing, that we have a completely morbid variation.In the lesscomplete forms of symbolismit is still thewoman who is desired, and the ends of procreation mayand the merebe served; when the woman isignoredsymbol is an adequate and even preferred stimulus todetumescence the pathologicalcondition becomes complete.Krafft-Ebing regarded shoe-fetichism as, in large measure,a more or less latent form of masochism, the foot orthe shoe being the symbol of the subjection and diehumiliation which the masochist feels in the presence ofthe beloved object. Moll, more correctly, states that theconnection is"very frequent." This was also the opinionof Gamier, who was, however, careful to point out thatthere are many cases in which no such connection can betraced.While we may properly admit the frequencyisof the connectionwe must be cautious in making any general at^