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Updated: June 15, 2025
The custom of junshi represents but one aspect of Japanese loyalty: there were other customs equally, if not even more, significant, for example, the custom of military suicide, not as junshi, but as a self-inflicted penalty exacted by the traditions of samurai discipline. Against harakiri, as punitive suicide, there was no legislative enactment, for obvious reasons.
If I had lived in Martin Luther's time I should have bared my back to a self-inflicted torture." Dr. Bruce was very pale. Never had he seen the Bishop or heard him when under the influence of such a passion. There was a sudden silence in the room. The Bishop sat down again and bowed his head. Dr. Bruce spoke at last: "Edward, I do not need to say that you have expressed my feelings also.
It may be instructive to bring forward another case in which no fetichistic feeling toward an object can be traced, but an erotic symbolism still clearly exists. In this case pain, even when self-inflicted, has acquired a symbolic value as a stimulus to tumescence, without any element of masochism.
It was Issy Epstein. He had been monkeying with his rifle and had shot himself in the hand. Of course, Issy was at once under suspicion of a self-inflicted wound, which is one of the worst crimes in the calendar. But the suspicion was removed instantly. Issy was hopping around, raising a terrific row. "Oi, oi," he wailed. "I'm ruint. I'm ruint. My thimble finger is gone. My thimble finger!
His life flowed, broad and unruffled, like some great river, unvexed for the most part by the rivalries, jealousies, and sufferings, oftentimes self-inflicted, which have harassed the careers of other great musicians. He remained to the last the favorite of the imperial court of Vienna, and princes followed his remains to their last resting-place.
"Self-inflicted, he suggests; therefore, that THIS may have happened. It is admitted WILL be admitted the servants overheard it we can make no reservation there a difference of opinion, an altercation, even, took place between Hugo and Clara that evening" she started suddenly "why, it was only last night it seems like ages an altercation about the children's schooling.
Meanwhile the curate had been telling Don Fernando and the others of Don Quixote's strange malady; he described how they had succeeded in taking him away from the wilderness and his self-inflicted penance, and told them all the strange adventures he had heard Sancho relate. They were greatly amused and thought it the most remarkable craze they had ever heard of.
Holding as he did to the Papal infallibility in a form far more extreme than that subsequently approved by the Vatican Council, he was bound in consistency to accept the Pope's decision as infallible in respect to its expediency and in all its detail. Thus it seemed to him that the ideal for which he had lived was shattered by a self-inflicted blow.
In a primitive state of society, the enjoyments of life, though few and simple, are spread over a great extent, and are unalloyed; but Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve; the heart-burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissentions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery, are unknown among these unsophisticated people.
It was a deliberate self-inflicted Crucifixion of the Christ in him, as an offering to the Apollo in him. This is really what broke his reason, in the end. By a process of spiritual vivisection the suffering of which one dare not conceive he took his natural "sanctity," and carved it, as a dish fit for the gods, until it assumed an Apollonian shape.
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