The image of Grigory Rasputin has become the most mythologized in Russian history. Perhaps none of the famous figures received such contradictory assessments. His personality was overgrown with rumors and legends, sometimes completely implausible. One of the most widespread myths, actively supported by the press, is Rasputin's hypersexuality. Historians and psychologists have tried to figure out how legitimate such statements are.
One of the most controversial characters in Russian history
Attempts to identify the personality type of Grigory Rasputin were made at the beginning of the twentieth century. Thus, a neuropathologist, psychiatrist, professor V. Bekhterev argued that “Rasputin is a hysterical epileptic. On this basis, possessing an abnormally increased sexual excitability, for a long time he cannot complete the sexual intercourse, which makes him completely lose his human appearance at such moments, continuously change sexual partners. It is because of his illness that he does not miss a single beautiful woman and enjoys such great success with many of them."
Psychiatrist V. Bekhterev explains Rasputin's incredible success among women * by sexual hypnotism *
“Everything that is known about Rasputin in this respect,” wrote V. Bekhterev, “speaks for the fact that his strength lay in the imperious nature of his nature. In addition to ordinary hypnotism, there is also sexual hypnotism, which, obviously, Elder Rasputin possessed in the highest degree."
Rasputin's hypersexuality was legendary
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Sexologist D. Isaev explains Rasputin's hypersexuality by his psychophysiological problems
Psychiatrist and sexologist D. Isaev asserts: “When it was impossible to achieve sexual intimacy, diffuse eroticism was observed, an unlimited extension of attraction to many women. An unsatisfied need to love and be loved pushed him to seek substitutions for traditional forms of sexual activity. In doing so, he found very original forms of rationalizing his actions under the guise of combating carnal sin. This gave him access to contact with many women and justified his half-hearted activity, limited only by prelude, and, at the same time, attracted new fans, because the moral ban on erotic actions was removed, which, according to the elder's explanations, had extremely noble and lofty, spiritual goals."
In 2014, a book by psychiatrist A. Kotsyubinsky and journalist and historian D. Kotsyubinsky “Rasputin. A life. Death. Mystery ", in which the authors come to the following conclusions:" He was a man with psychological traumas of childhood, with peculiarities of moral formation, which led to the development of hysteroid psychopathy in him as a basic character trait. In addition, he was a person who understood the structure of the psychology of the people around him. Therefore, he realized himself well as an individual psychotherapist. His success, first of all, was due to the fact that he was good at deneurotizing people, that is, consoling people. " Perhaps it was these talents that guaranteed him success with women.
Psychiatrist A. Kotsyubinsky considers hysteroid psychopathy to be the basic character trait of Rasputin
The authors of the book come to interesting conclusions: “A detailed analysis of the surviving evidence leaves no doubt: the real Grigory Rasputin was a man with a sharply reduced sexual potency, whose entire behavior model was built in such a way as to psychologically overcome this flaw, all the more intolerable for a hysteroid thirsting for love for myself from everyone and everything. At the same time, Rasputin sought not to simply compensate - that is, to hide - this shortcoming of his, but to knock out a wedge with a wedge. Instead of taking into account his sexual deficiency, as much as possible to dose physical intimacy with women, Gregory strove for their total conquest and brought this matter to a truly industrial scale, turning his seemingly fatal psychophysical flaw into a powerful instrument of sexual expansion."
The results of research by psychiatrists and sexologists make it possible to get closer to understanding the true essence of a controversial historical character, although disputes about him continue to this day.