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Dr T put her under hypnosis and told her, as often as 50 times an hour, that she was a slave, and later that she must call him ‘master.’ She said she was ordered to remove her blouse and bra during their therapy sessions, to approach him on hands and knees and submit to his painful manipulation of her nipples On several occasions, she said, he came to her apartment, where he stripped off the tunic he had ordered her to wear, and lashed her with a leather whip while she stood, nude, against the wall.
There is a dearth of psychoanalytic literature that dwells on the matter of sadism, despite its regular appearance in advance of the word masochism in the term sadomasochism and its early and important role in the history of psychoanalysis. In a 1990 panel on the topic of sadism and masochism, Gilman commented on the “mysterious disappearance” of sadism from clinical discussions (Levin 1990). Introducing the panel, Gilman concluded that sadism is theoretically situated behind masochism, both in its perverse and neurotic forms, and constitutes the raw instinctual fury behind it. Clinically, the nature of sadism, or reason someone might identify with a sadistic introject in contrast to masochistic surrender to that introject, remains unexplained
In 1889, Krafft-Ebing derived the term sadism from the life of the Marquis de Sade, and he applied it to a specific sexual perversion that he considered a “sexual hyperesthesia,” that is an exaggeration of normal biological instinct (Sulloway 1983) It is now loosely used to