seduction

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Seduction ( substantives seduction , also temptation or seduction ) means to " manipulate " someone in a non-violent way in such a way that they do something that they actually did not want or should (for example, behave illegally, indulge in sexual acts, adopt a religion, to buy something specific).

Seduction and conviction

In the persuasion there is a related form of seduction. The power of persuasion finds its connection through arguments . Explanation, understanding and ultimately understanding are the key positions here. Manipulation is also used here . Using certain techniques, people can be excited (at least temporarily) by things or ideas that are neither good nor objectively understandable for them.

The art of seduction and sexual seduction

The art of seduction describes all communicative strategies and actions with which one person wins over another person for sexual acts. For a long time there have been authors who offer advice and systems of behavior in this regard. The Indian work Kamasutra not only teaches love and sexual techniques, but also contains instructions on seduction - especially in Chapter 44 on seducing foreign women. Another famous book on the art of seduction is the work Ars amatoria or ars amandi by the Roman poet Ovid .

In recent times the term has also been used by some authors e.g. It is used, for example, by the Seduction Community for a number of flirting techniques which it is claimed that a masterful practitioner can seduce any woman. The techniques are also known as "tearing open". This includes certain psychological tricks that are supposed to set themselves apart from ordinary advances. Methods based on evolutionary psychology are used to address the “primal instincts” in order to arouse interest (e.g. “ dominance behavior of alpha males”). These and other practices related to the art of seduction are also covered under the term Pickup Arts .

Until 1994 was the Criminal Code of § 182 of the Criminal Code (sexual abuse of young people) headed seduction referred.

"Seduction" in chess

In problem chess , a “seduction” (often indexed with a “v”) is a (not easy to find) apparent solution to a chess problem that normally fails on exactly one parade. The seduction can be part of the thematic content of the problem, for example the thematic attempt, also called “audition”, in new German chess problems , which only becomes a solution through a previous plan. An example of this can be found in Friedrich Palitzsch .

Seduction in literature

Bible

The Seduction of Eve, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1877)
The Fall of Man, The Seduction of Adam by Eve (oil painting by Hendrick Goltzius 1616)

The type of satanic tempter or seducer is already pre-figured in the Bible : As the incarnation of evil, he takes up the weaknesses of his victims and reinforces them with temptations that are supposed to be of their advantage.

The Bible reports successful and unsuccessful attempts at seduction. In Genesis , for example, it is described how Satan, in the form of a serpent, succeeds in convincing Eve to break an express divine commandment and to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad . Eve cannot resist the tempting promise of becoming God-like as a result and then successfully seduces Adam into the fall . The result is the expulsion from the paradise of the Garden of Eden .

The Bible reports unsuccessful attempts by the devil, for example, when the starving Jesus tried to seduce him in the desert ( Mt 4.1-11  EU ; Mk 1.12-13  EU ; Lk 4.1-13  EU ) or during the provocation by the mockers the cross of the suffering Jesus: "If you are the Son of God, then come down from the cross" ( Mt 27.40  EU ). The seduction consists in using one's abilities to end the suffering, to avoid the humiliating crucifixion and to prove one's power to the whole world - albeit without having fulfilled one's actual mission.

Ovid's "Ars amatoria"

In his Ars amatoria , which was written between 1 BC. The Roman poet Ovid gives frivolous and erotic instructions on how women and men can playfully win over the other sex for themselves. Written as a didactic poem and spread out in three books, it mainly provides technical details on how to proceed in detail in order to achieve the desired success. Literary research assumes that the freedom of his portrayal brought Ovid to the exile to Tomoi on the Black Sea ordered by Augustus .

Giacomo Casanova's Histoire de ma vie

The life of the Italian womanizer and seducer Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) and his autobiographical work History of my Life ( Histoire de ma vie ), which has been translated into more than twenty languages, have received a great deal of attention in literature and art, but also to the mythization of himself and himself Seduction arts contributed. The opus is part of world literature . It is of great cultural and historical value insofar as it provides a detailed picture of the society of pre-revolutionary Europe. The seductive arts and love adventures of Casanova were often worked on in music theater, puppet theater, in film and in literature.

Goethe's "Faust"

Faust with Mephistopheles and Homunculus (German postage stamp from 1979)

In the tragedy Faust of the privy councilor, minister, scholar and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , published in 1808 , the seducer appears as Mephistopheles . Mephisto is a subservient spirit, initially summoned by Faust himself to help his thirst for knowledge to further insights that science and even magic could not provide him. In his delusion of wanting to achieve the superhuman, he seduces him to a pact that will ultimately give him completely into his hands. In his addiction to abundance of life, under the influence of Mephisto, Faust himself finally becomes the seducer and annihilator of the gullible Gretchen in the erotic field .

Goethe's seductive drama also reaches a dimension that encompasses space in that the poet precedes his Faust with a "prologue" in which Mephisto makes a bet with God in heaven that he will succeed in turning Faust off the right path. The literary criticism sees in Mephisto the destructive properties and strivings in the essence of man, which with the good properties constantly have to struggle for supremacy.

Max Weber

According to Max Weber , seduction is a form of exercise of power and domination . The ability to seduce others is the main characteristic of charismatic character. The charismatic character is able to win over other people for himself and his goals through his enthusiasm. This ability is and was needed to help people, as Albert Schweitzer and Mahatma Gandhi did; however, dictatorships were also created by charismatic people, e. B. by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini .

Seduction in the traffic joke

Red devil, puppet, Brussels 2015

In the traffic education in the traffic junk , the seducer - immediately recognizable for every child as the incarnated evil - takes on the form of the traffic devil. He has a didactic function there: as an opponent of the traffic jasper, who embodies the good and is a friend of the children, he picks up on the children's secret wishes in his absence and tries to reinforce them. So he tries again and again to entice the children to break the rules in traffic, for example by persuading them that crossing the street directly is much easier and faster than taking the detour through the next pedestrian tunnel or over the pedestrian bridge , especially since when you're in a hurry and can't be late for school.

In the traffic theater, however, the children also have to unmask classmates as seducers that are not so obviously recognizable, who, under the stimulus formula “Do you dare or are you a coward”, encourage tests of courage in traffic, for example to blindly cross a street when called, a barrier to lift, to take a " selfie " on the tracks with the approaching train or to use the zebra crossing for jumping games . As more difficult to unmask seducers in the traffic theater are adults who invite you to ride in their vehicle or - even more difficult for children to recognize - the offer of their own parents to use the much more comfortable parents' taxi to school despite having passed the pedestrian diploma .

The forces of resistance against the seductions of the traffic devil are challenged by the good figures of the traffic theater and supplied with appropriate arguments. These are embodied by the caring Kasper, the clever traffic dog "smart-smart", the helpful zebra "black and white", fairies or even more experienced classmates. The purpose of dealing with the children's attempts to seduce irregular and self-damaging behavior, which basically mostly grows from within, is to promote the insight that only good friends and positive qualities serve the integrity and harmonious coexistence in traffic, and that it can be fun to resist the arts of seduction because you can see through them.

literature

Scientific works

  • Wilfried Stroh : Rhetoric and erotic. A Study of Ovid's Love Didactic Poems . In: Würzburger Yearbooks for Classical Studies 5, 1979, ISSN  0342-5932 , pp. 117-132.

Narrative literature

See also

Wiktionary: seduce  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: seduction  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ovid: Art of Love (Ars amatoria). Reclam, Ditzingen 1992.
  2. ^ Roberto Gervasio: Giacomo Casanova. Seducer and man of the world. Munich 1977.
  3. ↑ Carina Lehnen: The praise of the seducer. About the mythization of the Casanova figure in German-language literature between 1899 and 1933. Paderborn 1995.
  4. ^ Ludwig Hillenbrandt: Casanova's guest. Amours and menus of the great seducer. 1966.
  5. ↑ JW v. Goethe: Faust. A tragedy , first published under this title in 1808. Latest edition: Hamburger Reading Books, Husum 2010.
  6. ↑ Irene Gerber-Münch: Goethe's Faust. A depth psychological study of the myth of modern man 1997
  7. ^ Wolfram Ellwanger, A. Grömminger: Das Handpuppenspiel in Kindergarten and Elementary School , Herder, Freiburg 1978
  8. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Kasperletheater . In: Dies .: The sense of playing. Reflections and game ideas . 4th edition, Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016
  9. ↑ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Verführer am Zebra crossing , In: Ders .: Traffic education from child. Perceive-play-think-act . 6th edition, Baltmannsweiler 2009, pp. 257-272
  10. ↑ ibid . Pp. 257-272