I, Theil I, p. 60). Krafft-Ebing knew a
man who masturbated before a mirror, imagining, at the same time,
how much better a real lover would be.
The best-observed cases of Narcissism have, however, been
recorded by Rohleder, who confers upon this condition the
ponderous name of automonosexualism, and believes that it has not
been previously observed (H. Rohleder, _Der Automonosexualismus_,
being Heft 225 of _Berliner Klinik_, March, 1907). In the two
cases investigated by Rohleder, both men, there was sexual
excitement in the contemplation of the individual's own body,
actually or in a mirror, with little or no sexual attraction to
other persons. Rohleder is inclined to regard the condition as
due to a congenital defect in the "sexual centre" of the brain.
FOOTNOTES:
[176] All the above groups of phenomena are dealt with in other volumes of
these _Studies_: the manifestations of normal sexual excitement, in vols.
iii, iv, and v; homosexuality, in vol. ii, and erotic fetichism, in vol.
v.
[177] See Appendix C.
[178] Letamendi, of Madrid, has suggested "_auto-erastia_" to cover what
is probably much the same field. In the beginning of the nineteenth
century, Hufeland, in his _Makrobiotic_, invented the term "_geistige
Onanie_," to express the filling and heating of the imagination with
voluptuous images, without unchastity of body; and in 1844, Kaan, in his
_Psychopathia Sexualis_, used, but did not invent, the term "_onania
psychica_.
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