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Necrophilia
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Necrophilia The term necrophilia is mostly used as a psychiatric expression for a pathological...psychotic, and incapable of obtaining a consenting partner. Necrophilia has been associated with cannibalism and vampirism as all are...
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necrophilia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
necrophilia Since strictly speaking the word means...a tomb for his dead wife. However, necrophilia is usually taken to describe a rare...with the body. Thus lust-murder and necrophilia are not identical but overlapping phenomena...
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mythic thought
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...with regard to food, sexuality, and the treatment of the dead. The last two categories were conflated in the practice of necrophilia with corpses selected for their beauty, for example, by the Egyptians responsible for mummifying the dead. In his work...
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psychoanalytic criticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...x2018;psychobiographies’ of writers, such as Marie Bonaparte's Edgar Poe (1933), which diagnoses sadistic necrophilia as the problem underlying Poe's tales. A more sophisticated study in this vein is E. Wilson's The Wound and the Bow...
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Poe, Edgar Allan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...critics (and Freud himself) have been intrigued by the macabre and pathological elements in his work, ranging from hints of necrophilia in his poem ‘Annabel Lee’ (1849) to the indulgent sadism of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum...
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sexual perversion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...prepubescent children is described as pedophilia. Other forms of sexual deviation include exhibitionism, incest, transvestism, necrophilia, sadism, and masochism. Many of these behaviors, when they involve the participation of nonconsenting adults (or children...
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vampire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...clinical phenomenon within which folklore, fantasy, and deviant behaviour converge. The ingestion of blood can complement necrophilia , which consists largely of sexual satisfaction derived from physical contact with a dead body. Auto-vampirism can include...
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Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
...defendant's right to a fair trial. The case involved the murder of six members of one family and the subsequent commission of necrophilia. The trial court prohibited publication of the confession of the accused as well as the contents of a note written by him...
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Paraphilias
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...includes a category for paraphilia not otherwise specified, which is the category for the less common paraphilias, including necrophilia, zoophilia, and others. Exhibitionism Exhibitionism is the exposure of genitals to a nonconsenting stranger. In some...
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