able to move.

He has at times indulged in self-whipping, of no great severity.

In the preceding case we see a tendency to erotic
self-flagellation which in a minor degree is not uncommon.
Occasionally it becomes highly developed. Max Marcuse has
presented such a case in elaborate detail (_Zeitschrift fuer die
Gesamte Neurologie_, 1912, ht. 3, fully summarized in
_Sexual-Probleme_, Nov., 1912, pp. 815-820). This is the case of
a Catholic priest of highly neurotic heredity, who spontaneously
began to whip himself at the age of 12, this self-flagellation
being continued and accompanied by masturbation after the age of
15. Other associated perversions were Narcissism and nates
fetichism, as well as homosexual phantasies. He experienced a
certain pleasure (with erection, not ejaculation) in punishing
his boy pupils. It is not uncommon for all forms of erotic
flagellation to be associated with a homosexual element. I have
elsewhere brought forward a case of this kind (the case of A.F.,
vol. ii of these _Studies_).

Significant is Rousseau's account of the origin of his own
masochistic pleasure in whipping at the age of 8: "Mademoiselle
Lambercier showed toward me a mother's affection and also a
mother's authority, which she sometimes carried so far as to
inflict on us the usual punishment of children when we had
deserved it. For a long time she was content with the threat, and
that threat of a chastisement which for me was quite new seemed
very terrible; but after it had been executed I found the
experience less terrible than the expectation had been; and,
strangely enough, this punishment increased my affection for her
who had inflicted it. It needed all my affection and all my
natural gentleness to prevent me from seeking a renewal of the
same treatment by deserving it, for I had found in the pain and
even in the shame of it an element of sensuality which left more
desire than fear of receiving the experience again from the same
hand. It is true that, as in all this a precocious sexual element
was doubtless mixed, the same chastisement if inflicted by her
brother would not have seemed so pleasant." He goes on to say
that the punishment was inflicted a second time, but that that
time was the last, Mademoiselle Lambercier having apparently
noted the effects it produced,