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Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard von Krafft-Ebing Biography

Psychiatrist

Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a German psychiatrist born on August 14, 1840, and died on December 22, 1902. He made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and sexology, particularly for his classification studies on homosexuality and sexual perversions.

Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a German psychiatrist born on August 14, 1840, and died on December 22, 1902. He made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and sexology, particularly for his classification studies on homosexuality and sexual perversions.

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“He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality.”

Solitude Sexual Abnormality

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“His father was an epileptic, and his sister was an imbecile.”

Epileptic Imbecile

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“CASE 146. Once summer's evening, at twilight, X.Y., a doctor of medicine in a North German city, was trodden on by a watchman as he (the doctor) was committing an immoral act with a tramp on a path in a field. He was practicing masturbation on him and thereupon putting the tramp's penis into his mouth.”

Homosexuality Fellatio Immoral Act

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“The result of this marriage was, after five years, two children, and a collection of seventy-two wigs.”

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“Almost every masturbator at last reaches a point where, frightened on learning the results of the vice, or on experiencing them (neurasthenia), or led by example or seduction to the opposite sex, he wishes to free himself of the vice and re-instate his sexual life.”

Masturbation Neurasthenia

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.”

Real Joy Illusion Gold Breakup Break Up Momentary Intoxication Real Gold

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.”

Thinking Wells Sometimes Hours Poor Fool Quitting Breakup Break Up Bye Fooled Good Bye Saying Good Bye Comical

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”

Men Mean Ends Pleasure Increase Regard Contrast Means To An End

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.”

Ideas Facts Pleasure Violence Stimulus Acts Of Violence

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.”

Firsts Reason Passion Love Is Passing Passings Sensual Lasting First Love Fleeting Infatuation

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”

Persons Imagination Comedy Paid Silly My Imagination Mistress

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.”

Long Made Suffering Choices Lost Mistake Moral Dignity Sexuality Long Life Made A Mistake Penance

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”

May Persons Facts Dream Sex Pleasure Female Roots Males Inversions

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1840
Died: December 22, 1902
Known for: Psychiatrist
Quotes: 13

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