This is the topic of the wonderfully named Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Imp of the Perverse: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fictio

This is the topic of the wonderfully named Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Imp of the Perverse: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction/text/the-imp-of-the-perverse https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...