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Sadism as a slogan

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There is a kind of mysticism in perversion: the greater the renunciation, the greater and the more secure the gains […] pleasure ceases to motivate the will and is abjured, disavowed, "renounced," the better to be recovered as a reward or consequence, and as a law.

It has itself become an idea or ideal. Pleasure is now a form of behavior related to repetition, accompanying and following repetition, which has itself become an awesome, independent force.

Beneath the sound and fury of sadism and masochism the terrible force of repetition is at work […] Instead of repetition being governed by the idea of experiencing or reexperiencing pleasure, repetition runs wild and becomes independent of all previous pleasure.

C’est comme dans une théologie noire où le plaisir cesse d’être le motif de la volonté, est essentiellement abjuré, dénié, « renoncé », mais pour mieux être retrouvé comme récompense ou résultat, et comme loi.

Deleuze, Sacher Masoch

Et c’est le plaisir qui est devenu conduite à l’égard de la répétition, c’est lui qui accompagne et suit maintenant la répétition comme terrible puissance indépendante […] Il y a un mysticisme du pervers : le pervers retrouve d’autant plus et d’autant mieux, qu’il a plus abandonné.