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Article: Essential Papers on Masochism
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Essential Papers on Masochism, edited by Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly. New York and London: New York University Press, 1995, 532 pp.
Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly includes papers that best describe the topic or best illustrate masochism. She pays careful attention to the historical development of the concept and some of its contemporary conceptions and applications. The papers are grouped in six sections, each one representing a distinct aspect of the topic. The sections have thought-provoking introductions by the editor, which also serve as a guide to the seminal ideas of the authors. In the introduction, Fitzpatrick Hanly writes,
Masochism is a psychoanalytic concept which has served ...