Rutgers University, Camden, N.J..
J Relig Health. 1983 Sep;22(3):221-33. doi: 10.1007/BF02280628.
The various aspects of masochistic personality structures provide a useful model for examining familiar elements of ordinary religious life. Overall theories of masochism can be divided into six general categories which trace masochism to 1) a distortion of love, 2) a need for punishment, 3) a payment for future rewards, 4) a strategy of the weak or powerless, 5) a flight from selfhood, or 6) an effort to be an object for others. In each case, religious analogies can be found exhibiting the same dynamics. Thus, certain religious phenomena may provide cultural or collective responses to the psychological needs at the root of masochism.240.
受虐人格结构的各个方面为研究普通宗教生活中常见的元素提供了一个有用的模型。受虐总体理论可以分为六个一般类别，将受虐追溯为 1）爱扭曲，2）需要惩罚，3）对未来回报的支付，4）弱者或无权者的策略，5）逃避自我，或 6）成为他人对象的努力。在每种情况下，都可以找到相同动力的宗教类比。因此，某些宗教现象可能为受虐根源的心理需求提供了文化或集体反应。240.
