> On Sep 14, 8:52 pm, Don Stockbauer hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 14, 6:42 pm, "Scott H" wrote:

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>>> I briefly had a look at a thick, black book written by the Austrian
>>> psychologist Wilhelm Stekel called _Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of
>>> Hatred and Cruelty_. I spent the next hour crying and throwing up.

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>>> Here is a quote:

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>>> "The pleasure in cruelty manifested by civilized man arises from his
>>> egocentric point of view ... All displeasure is granted to other people, if
>>> only we may be spared. Only the martyr takes another's pain upon himself; to
>>> be sure, because the consciousness of this affords him pleasure. He is a
>>> pathological character and already belongs in the field of sexual
>>> pathology."

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>>> Does anyone know who Wilhelm Stekel is and what he stands for?

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>> Beats me.

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> Did you mean beat meat?