title: Sadism revisited.
abstract: Sadism has been for a long time, among psychoanalytic and other writers, the subject of extensive theorizing and controversy. This paper takes a fresh look at the many dimensions (sexual, characterological, neurotic, psychotic, neurological) of this old aberrations.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D001009:Anxiety, Castration / Q000150:complications; D001318:Authoritarianism; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012448:Sadism; D014474:Unconsciousness; D014754:Violence