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Erotic experiences are connected very easily with them because, going over into the regressive phase, they show their “titanic” countenances. I have with some daring, but not without right, just cited the Siddhi as the anagogic equivalent of autoerotism. The regressive phase, however, appears as soon as one indulges in the gratification of the Siddhi. They can be both divine and diabolic.
My attention has also been directed to a deficiency in the above-cited statement which for the sake of clearness described any conceivable separation between the two phases of autoerotism and object love as a temporal separation. Some persons can recall that the contact of the moving air in swinging caused them direct sexual pleasure in the genitals. "Those who love each other tease each other."
Further the obstacles that stand in the way of the full erotic life in the external world, in so far as they are insuperable or are not overcome on account of laziness, lead to autoerotism. We have considered the following main forces: 1. Removal of obstacles. 2. Desire for the solicitude of the parents. 3. Auto-erotism. 5-6. Improvement and re-creation. 7. Death wish. Killing of the father.
The sinking of oneself into one’s own soul also appears exactly as a morbid losing of oneself in it. We can speak of introversion neuroses. Jung regards dementia precox as an introversion neurosis. So we see how generally self-chastisement, introversion and autoerotism are connected.
I believe that the association of the manifestations into which we gained an insight through psychoanalytic investigation justify us in claiming thumbsucking as a sexual activity and in studying through it the essential features of the infantile sexual activity. *Autoerotism.* It is our duty here to arrange this state of affairs differently.
Ellis spoils, however, the sense of his invented term by comprising under the phenomena of autoerotism the whole of hysteria and masturbation in its full extent. Further reflection and observation lead me to attribute the quality of erogenity to all parts of the body and inner organs. See later on narcism.
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