The word of the week: Sadist – Sadism
Who was the writer Marquis de Sade and what is his relationship with sadism
The word sadism is a word of universal acceptance (as is the word Masochism, see here) and is used to denote, initially, sexual perversion in which someone gets sexual satisfaction by causing mental or physical pain to his/her partner. By extension, the term is used beyond sexual perversion to denote pleasure, that one feels torturing another.
The term was coined after the French novelist Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814 (Donacien Alphonse Francois Comte de Sade – French.: Donatien Alphonse François Count of Sade). The word sadisme > sadism is witnessed for the first time 85, about, years since De Sade's death. The same one, around the time Schrenck-Notzing (1895/1956), suggested the Greek term "algolagnia", "algolagnia", to describe what is now characterized as sadism.
Those who accused De Sade too easily, they considered him abnormal and perverted. His defense, in any case, would support: "Sade was considered a great pornographer and at the same time a philosopher of libertarianism, an explorer of human limits. But carelessness, in his work, it is but a linguistic reality, nothing else. The real and the book are separated, and he emphatically attempts to emphasize this condition. "Yes", writes, "I am a prodigal, I admit it: I caught the,what can one conceive of indolence, but I certainly didn't do everything I set out to do, and I certainly never will. I'm a promiscuous, but I'm not a criminal or a murderer".
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