fuer Psychiatrie, Bd.  LXIII, p. 127).  Moll refers to a young homosexual lawyer, who experienced great pleasure in gazing at himself in a mirror (Kontraere Sexualempfindung, 3d ed., p. 228), and mentions another inverted man, an admirer of the nates of men, who, chancing to observe his own nates in a mirror, when changing his shirt, was struck by their beauty, and subsequently found pleasure in admiring them (Libido Sexualis, Bd.  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.”  Gustav Jaeger, in his Entdeckung der Seele, proposed “monosexual idiosyncrasy,” to indicate the most animal forms of masturbation taking place without any correlative imaginative element, a condition illustrated by cases given in Moll’s Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis, Bd.  I, pp. 13 et seq.  Dr. Laupts (a pseudonym for the accomplished psychologist, Dr. Saint-Paul) uses the term autophilie, for solitary vice. (Perversion et Perversite Sexuelles, 1896, p. 337.) But all these terms only cover a portion of the field.

[179] H. Northcote, Christianity and Sex Problems, p. 231.

[180] Rosse observed two elephants procuring erection by entwining their proboscides, the act being completed by one elephant opening his mouth and allowing the other to tickle the roof of it. (I.  Rosse, Virginia Medical Monthly, October, 1892.)

[181] Fere, “Perversions sexuelles chez les animaux,” Revue Philosophique, May, 1897.