MasochismIn his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze’s essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch’s “peculiar way of ‘desexualizing’ love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity.” He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism: their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them — Masoch and Sade — lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles apart. |
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... Reik quotes a case where all the " magic " vanishes from the masochistic scene because the subject thinks he recognizes in the woman about to strike him a trait that reminds him of the father . 19 ( The same thing happens at the end of ...
... Reik's words , since the punishment comes from the father , the crime must have been committed against the father ) , clearly leads to the creation of an arbitrary etiology which is solely determined by the tendency to derive masochism ...
... Reik , Masochism , p . 18 . 20. Cf. Appendix III . 21. Maurice Blanchot , Lautréamont et Sade , p . 35 . 22. Reik , Masochism , pp . 44-91 . 23. Cf. Appendix II . 24. Pagisme : form of masochism where the subject imagines he is a page ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
The Language of Sade and Masoch | 15 |
The Role of Descriptions | 25 |
Copyright | |
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