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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... disavowal ( just as the absence of a penis need not indicate lack of the phallus , its presence likewise need not ... disavowal , a positive , idealizing disavowal of the mother ( who is identified with the law ) and an invalidating ...
... disavowal to sus- pense , from disavowal as a process of liberation from the pressures of the superego to suspense as incarnation of the ideal . Disavowal is a qualitative process that transfers to the oral mother the pos- session and ...
... disavowal derive , namely the abolition of the father and the rejection of sexuality . Nor is disavowal in general just a form of imagination ; it is nothing less than the foundation of imagination , which suspends reality and ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
The Language of Sade and Masoch | 15 |
The Role of Descriptions | 25 |
Copyright | |
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