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Masochism Through The Prism Of Interconnections With Archaic Heritage Of The Humanity

Психологічне консультування i психотерапія, 2021
We carried out the study, on which the article is based, in a psychodynamic paradigm in the relationship with the disclosure of the problem of archaic heritage of the humanity, which is manifested in the pralogical properties of thinking.
Tamara Yatsenko
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Eros and Objecthood in ‘Upon Appleton House’

Marvell Studies, 2019
This essay explores the peculiar erotics of the material world in Andrew Marvell’s country house poem. The discussion builds upon previous scholarship regarding the role of sexuality in this text in order to offer new directions for interpretation by ...
John Garrison
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Implication of addiction and masochism in gender-based violence

Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 2020
The objective of this work is to propose a reflection on the personality of women who suffer gender-based violence, to verify whether this aspect is based on psychopathological traits, as highlighted by the major current nosographic systems.
Adriana Cornacchia
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O prazer e a dor na adicção sexual: vicissitudes do masoquismo

Psicologia USP, 2019
Resumo A adicção sexual pode ser definida como quadro psicopatológico no qual o sexo é buscado de forma incontrolável, desenfreada, a despeito dos prejuízos emocionais, sociais e profissionais que suscita no cotidiano do adicto.
Ney Klier, Monah Winograd
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Masochism of Play

Screenworks
Video games are a contradictory medium. Players often experience failure while playing a game, sometimes repeatedly. We do not usually enjoy failure. And yet, players clearly take great pleasure in the process of play.
Samantha Close
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The Sadomasochism in Awwad’s Life and Writing: The First World War Trauma

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2018
The paper focuses on the Sadomasochism of the Lebanese novelist, poet and diplomat Tawifq Yusuf Awwad, due to the horrible childhood which has shaped his character.
Wisam Lattee
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To Buy or Not to Buy?:Vulnerability and the Criminalisation of Commercial BDSM [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the interaction of law and policy-making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that
Cowan, Sharon; id_orcid
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Masochistic Performance of Scheherazade: A Multimodal Analysis of Prince Charming

CINEJ Cinema Journal
This study attempts to highlight the embedded masochist aesthetics supporting the masochistic patterns in a Pakistani short film Prince Charming (2021), directed by Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui, a Pakistani actor, film producer, director and television ...
Attiya Zafar, Nadia Anwar
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Horror cinema and sadistic spectacle: A further defense of gorefests

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
Dismemberment via chainsaw, consuming organs from a living person, turning a body inside out via spectral hooks. Horror cinema is no stranger to intense, often controversial imagery.
Marius A. Pascale
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Guises of Despair

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Is Hope A Secular Virtue?’ (2024), Bob Stern and I argued that despairing involves being unable to stop desiring something we deem of great value while believing that this good can neither be obtained, nor return on its own. We characterised despair as one of the two vices hope sits between as a virtue (the opposite vice being unwarranted ...
Béatrice Han‐Pile
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