Masochism

Description:

"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (b. 1835) was a Professor of History and a celebrated German novelist of the latter half of the 19th century. Here, in Venus in Furs, Masoch's most famous novel, one finds the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment and of course the perpetual and volatile presence of a terrible coldness. Yet what we actually encounter has little to do with these reductive caricatures." "Deleuze's essay is an attempt to restore to Masoch's work the rigorous and informed philosophical examination that is due it. Deleuze's essay - the most profound study yet produced on the relations between Masochism and Sadism - seeks to develop and explain Masoch's peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  History and criticism,  Erotic literature,  Masochism in literature,  Sadism in literature,  Philosophy,  General,  German Prose,  Sacher-Masoch, Leopold,,  Literature - Classics / Criticism,  German,  European - German,  Philosophy / General,  Sacher-Masoch, Leopold,  Sade,  1835-1895,  Ritter von,,  Sade,,  Sacher-masoch, leopold, ritter von, 1835-1895,  Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814,  Erotic literature, history and criticism,  Literary criticism - general & miscellaneous,  Sexual alternatives,  18th century french literature - literary criticism,  Erotic literature - literary criticism,  Psychology & literature,  Criticism and interpretationsacher-masoch, leopold , 1835-1895,  Criticism and interpretationsade , 1740-1814,  Erotic literature--history and criticism