by Louise Malan | Dec 15, 2017 | Personality Structure
When we hear the word masochism, sexual masochism normally comes to mind. Some people experience sexual excitement in suffering pain or humiliation. Sexual masochism was named after the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who’s sexual excitement was dependent...
by Louise Malan | Dec 15, 2017 | Personality Structure
We all know people who are excessively clingy and dependent and others who may be detached and even cold. It is interesting to note that both these styles of functioning often originate from the same problem in early childhood. It is fascinating to know that human...
by Louise Malan | Dec 15, 2017 | Personality Structure
Are people with antisocial (psychopathic) personalities only the criminals and murderers of society, or can the successful politician or businessman who consciously manipulates others and lack true empathy for them as human beings also have an essentially...
by Louise Malan | Dec 13, 2017 | Personality Structure
Narcissism is a topic Freud gave frequent attention to. He borrowed the name from the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus falls in love with the reflection of his beautiful face in the water. His reflection deceives him because it only shows his perfect, beautiful...
