The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.J Am Acad Psychoanal Dyn Psychiatry.2010 Spring;38(1):133-57. doi: 10.1521/jaap.2010.38.1.133.
Sexual sadism has been defined ambiguously in the DSM to include both preoccupation with sadistic sexual fantasies and the acting out of such fantasies (with resultant harm or death to the victims). Ideally, the term should be used only for persons in whom such fantasies are acted out in actual beha
Monstrous infants and vampyric mothers in Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
Almond BR1.
The International journal of psycho-analysis.Int J Psychoanal.2007 Feb;88(Pt 1):219-35.
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" continues to fascinate and horrify audiences, inviting a psychoanalytic explanation. While previous interpretations have emphasized oedipal dynamics and perverse sexuality, this paper proposes that early developmental issues are central. Vampires and the state of being "undea