Open AccessPisarstwo i masochizm Jana Jakuba Rousseau
Author(s) -
Wojciech Siegień
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
problemy wczesnej edukacji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2230
pISSN - 1734-1582
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0008.9220
Subject(s) - paraphilia , human sexuality , context (archaeology) , gesture , psychoanalysis , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , sexual behavior , social psychology , gender studies , history , linguistics , archaeology
The present paper is an attempt at discursive exercises involving the application of modern psychiatric knowledge, treated as a variant of truth-discourse about human sexuality, for the diagnosis of the mental condition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. An analysis of his “Confessions” shows that in his case one can speak of a strong masochistic tendency. Masochism is analyzed not only in the context of sexual paraphilia. Equally important is proximity of masochistic tendencies and gestures to record his own confessions.