...potent and, for some people, more stimulating. As Freud puts it: The history of human civilisation shows beyond any doubt that there is an intimate connection...and the sexual instinct; but nothing has been done toward explaining the connection, apart from laying emphasis on the aggressive factor in the libido....

...first model of the mind Freud thought of aggression as a component of the sexual drive: "The history of civilization shows beyond any doubt that there is...connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct" (1905b, p. 159). Although aggressive impulses are associated with the expression of libidinal urges,...

...from the Rat Man and Dora cases to demonstrate Freud's initial insights. It was Freud's belief that "the history of human civilization shows beyond any...connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct" (Freud, 1909/1955). Loewenberg agreed with Freud, and suggested we cannot easily get rid of violence...

...has become independent and exaggerated and, by displacement, has usurped the leading position . . . The history of human civilization shows beyond any...connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct . . . "(1905a, pp. 158-59.) In the 1913-15 period Freud continued to consider hostility mainly as observed...

...include references to the problem of the apparent "cruelty" of the early infantile sexual aims:"The history of human civilization shows beyond any doubt...connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct. . . . According to some authorities this aggressive element of the sexual instinct is in reality a...

...ADULT SADISTIC MURDERER CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS, BACKGROUND AND FRAMEWORK OF THIS BOOK The history of the human civilization shows beyond any doubt that there...connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct. (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939) Sexual murders routinely attract the attention of the public, and the general...

...is exploring the development of human sexuality when he writes in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that "the history of human civilization shows beyond any...intimate connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct."16 Nowhere, Freud continues, is human sexual cruelty more compellingly or commonly manifested...