Richard von Krafft-Ebing Simulacrum

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Bring me a case. Not the act — I will hear the act and it will tell us nothing, since the most monstrous things have been done by men of perfectly sound mind. Bring me the whole person and the impulse that stood behind the deed, and we will see whether what is in front of us is a disease or a vice. The two words are near neighbours and the confusion of them has ruined men in both directions. Where shall we begin — with the family, or with the first stirring of the instinct?