Regarding this occurrence _Ziemcke_ relates: “Towards the last of his
studies at Kiel he brought to his room a 12-year-old boy from the
street under the pretext of carrying some books for him. When the boy
returned he suggested making some experiments on him, tapped him first
on the knee cap, then had him take off his stockings and kneel on the
edge of the lowermost cabinet drawer; next he forced the boy to stand
up stripped to the waist while he pricked him with a pen in the armpit
and under the fingernails. After that he hung him by a rope tied
around his hands, but the rope broke. Then he had the boy lie down on
the sofa, lowered his trousers so as to expose the hips and gluteal
region and proposed to pay the boy 5 pfennig for every one of 50 cane
strokes. After the 43rd stroke the boy could not endure the pain any
longer, so he increased the pay to 10 pfennig and gave him 5
additional strokes. It has been ascertained that the man had been
drinking hard the night before carousing until daylight and according
to his own testimony he was very nervous next day and had palpitation
of the heart. He also stated that he had acted impulsively; he
remembered well all the details of the occurrence but everything took
place as in a haze. After the deed he had a feeling of relief, his
usual excitement and unrest promptly subsided. Examination showed
nothing physically abnormal and absence of any serious intellectual
defect as well.”
Footnote 28:
The volume on _Sadism and Masochism_, in my Series on the _Disorders
of the Instincts and of the Emotions_. English version by _Van
Teslaar_.
Footnote 29:
At a meeting of the medical society in Odessa, a colleague was
presented as one who had been treated unsuccessfully by me. He
suffered compulsions of a most serious character and was one week
under my care. I had proposed three months. Nevertheless he was
brought forth as proof of the inefficacy of psychoanalysis. It
happened that colleague Dr. W. was present, and he knew that the
alleged analysis was of one week’s duration. He was able to apprise
the meeting of the fact. In a few weeks that honorable sick physician
placed himself under the professional care of Dr. W....
Footnote 30:
An “infantile sexual theory,” in which coitus is conceived
sadistically as a squeezing.
Footnote 31:
_Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse_, Vol. IV.
Footnote 32:
_Cf._ also my essay, _Der Kampf der Geschlechter, the Struggle between
the Sexes_, in my work, _The Beloved Ego_, Moffat, Yard & Co., N. Y. I
have now under treatment a very sick woman who has gone to pieces over
a similar problem. She was anesthetic with all men. The one man who
had just once roused her during sexual intercourse she hated and could
kill.
Footnote 33:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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