单词 | sadism |
释义 | sadismn. Enthusiasm for inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others; spec. a psychological disorder characterized by sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviour involving the subjection of another person to pain, humiliation, bondage, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sadism or masochism sadism1818 masochism1892 algolagnia1893 heterosexuality1898 sadomasochism1919 S and M1965 D and S1990 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] > sadism sadism1818 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > sadistic sadism1818 vice anglais1942 1818 T. Moore Jrnl. 30 Nov. (1983) I. 94 There is at present a society of Debaucheries in Paris founded upon the principles contained in [de Sade's] Justine.., which they call Sadism. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/2 Sadism..is happily so strange to the majority of our people. 1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis iii. 87 There are individuals for whom,..all that is connected with death and suffering has a mysterious attraction... Still, this is not sadism, as long as no sexual element enters into consciousness. 1897 Lancet 13 Nov. 1263/2 Crimes committed by people afflicted with what is technically known as ‘sadism’. 1900 Times 15 Nov. 3/6 That had led the medical faculty to suppose that the murderer was a man of perverse instincts, and therefore, that this was a fresh instance of fetishism or sadism. 1920 G. S. Hall tr. S. Freud Gen. Introd. Psychoanal. xxi. 284 Some of the components of the sex instincts have had an object from the very beginning and hold fast to it; such are the instinct to mastery (sadism), curiosity, and the impulse to watch. 1937 H. G. Wells Brynhild vii. 116 He..with an expression of impish sadism..prodded his sceptre into young Bates. 1943 H. Read Politics of Unpolitical ii. 18 Sadism is the unconscious impulse to acquire unrestricted power over another person, and to test the fullness of this power by destroying that other person. 1945 G. Johnson in T. A. Kirby & H. B. Woolf Philologica (1949) 322 Perhaps it is sheer sadism, but this reviewer cannot help but wish that Mr. Daniels had put into his book a little more arsenic and a little less old lace. 1974 I. Bieber in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry III. xv. 318/2 In my view sadism is a maladaptive response to threat; it is a paranoid constellation in which the victim is a personified representative of a variety of irrationally perceived threats. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names v. 96 Caning and sadism ceased; the playground bullies, deprived of adult role-models, turned civilised and considerate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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