Liberation from Masochism
Understanding a Basic Conflict Behind Excessive Self-Sacrifice (Vol. 4; Issue 19)
The great anti-psychiatry hero of the 1970s, Thomas Szasz (1988, 1989), thinks our personalities exist along a continuum from masochism to narcissism. These unfortunate words are “terms of art” in psychoanalysis. Masochists—no, not the ones requiring torture during sexual acts—struggle to identify their own desires, tend to undervalue themselves, and sa…
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