algolagnia Path.
(ælgəʊˈlægnɪə)
[mod.L., f. G. algolagnie (A. von Schrenck-Notzing, Sugg.-Therap. (1892) iii vii. 125), f. Gr. ἄλγος pain + λαγνεία lust.]
A form of sexual perversion (see quots.). Hence algolagˈnistic a.
| 1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 31/1 Algolagnia, abnormal and distorted activity of sexual impulse toward persons of opposite sex, including sadism, masochism, etc. 1908 M. E. Paul tr. I. Bloch's Sexual Life of our Time xxi. 558 De Sade..collected almost all the facts..regarding the algolagnistic phenomena in ethnology. 1924 E. & C. Paul tr. L. C. Baudouin's Psycho-Analysis & Aesthetics 101 The word ‘algolagnia’ was coined to denote the inner unity of a tendency embracing two instincts, the instinct of suffering and that of making others suffer, the pathological forms of these instincts being known as ‘masochism’ and ‘sadism’ respectively. 1940 Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 20/1 Sadism thus came to be known as active algolagnia, while masochism was called passive algolagnia. 1949 H. Hare Swinburne vi. 126 This active sadism is expressed over and over again throughout Poems and Ballads... The algolagnia is carried to the last extreme. |