The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson.

  • Tarnovskiĭ, Veniamin Mikhaĭlovich, 1837-1906.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The sexual instinct and its morbid manifestations from the double standpoint of jurisprudence and psychiatry / by Dr. B. Tarnowsky ; translated [from the Russian] by W.C. Costello and Alfred Allinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 in persons, relatively healthy, and who are not under the influence of hereditary in- firmity. In the first group the disorder of the genesic functions is to be referred to a psycho- pathic or neuropathic constitution; whereas in the second group we have to do with individuals, who from their birth have always enjoyed a properly constituted and normally acting nervous system. The morbid symptoms again resulting from hereditary infirmity also show themselves under different forms. In some cases they present themselves with the very first awakening of the genesic instinct, and in their development remain refractory to the influence of education or example, attain their greatest intensity in the period of sexual maturity and manhood, and subsist during the rest of the lifetime, with periodical diminution or increase. These aberrations are in their nature constant and invariable, special to the particular organ- ism, in precisely the same way as other innate peculiarities of character feeling or morality are special to the same individual. The said disturbances constitute the first kind of hereditary infirmity, which we will