MASOCHISM: DELUSIVE SCHIZOID AND EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE WITH FEW REMEDIAL MEASURES (Pages 181-188) by admin in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

Masochism is likeness in pain for one’s own pleasure, feeling of suffering or feeling sad and depressed. Whereas it doesn’t only include pain it also includes humility. The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate oneself and consider oneself unworthy of love and worthless as a person. Consequently, he or she is prone to self-destructive, punishing, and self-defeating behaviors. These self-penalizing behaviors are self-purging: they intend to relieve the masochist of overwhelming, pent-up anxiety. The masochist's conduct is equally aimed at avoiding intimacy and its benefits: companionship and support. Masochists tend to choose people and circumstances that inevitably and predictably lead to failure, disillusionment, disappointment, and mistreatment. Conversely, they tend to avoid relationships, interactions, and circumstances that are likely to result in success or gratification. When the masochist fails at these attempts at self-sabotage, he reacts with rage, depression, and guilt. Some masochists make harmful self-sacrifices, uncalled for by the situation and unwanted by the intended beneficiaries or recipients. The projective identification defense mechanism is frequently at play. The masochist deliberately provokes, solicits, and incites angry, disparaging, and rejecting responses from others in order to feel on "familiar territory": humiliated, defeated, devastated, and hurt.asochism is likeness in pain for one’s own pleasure, feeling of suffering or feeling sad and depressed. Whereas it doesn’t only include pain it also includes humility. The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate oneself and consider oneself unworthy of love and worthless as a person. Consequently, he or she is prone to self-destructive, punishing, and self-defeating behaviors. These self-penalizing behaviors are self-purging: they intend to relieve the masochist of overwhelming, pent-up anxiety. The masochist's conduct is equally aimed at avoiding intimacy and its benefits: companionship and support. Masochists tend to choose people and circumstances that inevitably and predictably lead to failure, disillusionment, disappointment, and mistreatment. Conversely, they tend to avoid relationships, interactions, and circumstances that are likely to result in success or gratification. When the masochist fails at these attempts at self-sabotage, he reacts with rage, depression, and guilt. Some masochists make harmful self-sacrifices, uncalled for by the situation and unwanted by the intended beneficiaries or recipients. The projective identification defense mechanism is frequently at play. The masochist deliberately provokes, solicits, and incites angry, disparaging, and rejecting responses from others in order to feel on "familiar territory": humiliated, defeated, devastated, and hurt.Keywords: Masochism, masochist, self-penalizing behaviors, self-sabotage, self-sacrifice, defense mechanism, familiar territory etc.