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In public and social life as well as in our analytical work we meet frequently with the amazing fact that people are fascinated by a specific kind of personality and that they passionately, anxiously or stubbornly stick to this fascinating situation which obviously seems to provide them with no real satisfaction whatsoever.
There are, for example, physicians who are well known for their rude and inconsiderate manners. Most of their patients are greatly impressed by that very rudeness and — whether they are good doctors or not — their offices are crowded. Many girls of fourteen are crazy about the one or the other movie star in a similar one-sided manner.
Facing these facts we will try to understand the mental mechanisms of being fascinated on the one side and the working of the fascinating powers on the other.
These questions have been discussed repeatedly1 but specific