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Psychopathia Sexualis,
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO
Contrary Sexual Instinct:
A MEDICO-LEGAL STUDY.

By Dr. R. von KRAFFT-EBING,
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Vienna.
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION
OF THE
SEVENTH ENLARGED AND REVISED GERMAN EDITION,
BY
CHARLES GILBERT CHADDOCK, M.D.,
Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis; Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine; Corresponding Member of the Detroit Academy of Medicine; Associate Member of the American Medico-Psychological Association, etc.
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON:
THE F. A. DAVIS CO., PUBLISHERS.
1893.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by
THE F. A. DAVIS COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
All rights reserved.
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.:
The Medical Bulletin Printing House,
1916 Cherry Street.
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

Very few ever fully appreciate the powerful influence whichsexuality exercises over feeling, thought, and conduct, both inthe individual and in society. Schiller, in his poem, “Die Weltweisen,”recognizes it with the words:—

“Einstweilen bis den Bau der Welt
Philosophie zusammenhält,
Erhält sie das Getriebe
Durch Hunger und durch Liebe.”[1]

It is remarkable that the sexual life has received but avery subordinate consideration on the part of philosophers.

Schopenhauer (“The World as Will and Idea”) thoughtit strange that love had been thus far a subject for the poetalone, and that, with the exception of superficial treatment byPlato, Rousseau, and Kant, it had been foreign to philosophers.

What Schopenhauer and, after him, the Philosopher of theUnconscious, E. v. Hartmann, philosophized concerning the sexualrelations is so imperfect, and in its consequences so distasteful,that, aside from the treatment in the works of Michelet(“L’amour”) and Mantegazza (“Physiology of Love”), whichare to be considered more as brilliant discussions than as scientifictreatises, the empirical psychology and metaphysics of thesexual side of human existence rest upon a

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