Vol 33 (1) 2015
Freud reads Krafft-Ebing: A short Genealogy of Sadism – Jens De Vleminck
No Oblivion for Sadomasochism: Sociological Questions and Suggestions – Gert Hekma
Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality: A mise-en-scène of the Perverse Structure – Katrien Vuylsteke-Vanfleteren
Terror, Negation, and Writing, Blanchot’s Reading of Sade – Lode Lauwaert
Looking for Tracks in Lacan’s “Kant avec Sade” – Alain Pringels
Looking for Tracks in Lacan’s “Kant avec Sade”
In 2010 I was invited to take part in a cartel with Filip Geerardyn, Wim Matthys and Elisabeth Van Dam for a close reading of Lacan's text "Kant with Sade". In the aftermath of this I wrote this text, which is neither a record of the cartel, nor an attempt to...
Terror, Negation, and Writing, Blanchot’s Reading of Sade
In the middle of the last century, numerous French thinkers were interested in the literary works of D.A.F. de Sade, among them Lacan and Blanchot. Blanchot saw Sade as the ideal writer and this author argues that Blanchot's assertion was based on a conceptualisation...
Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality: A mise-en-scène of the Perverse Structure
A substantial part of Pierre Klossowski's philosophical writings is dedicated to the works of Marquis de Sade, but Sade's influence can also be traced in his literary and visual oeuvre. In his play Roberte, ce soir, Klossowski dramatizes scholarly Octave's quest for...
No Oblivion for Sadomasochism: Sociological Questions and Suggestions
Sadomasochism is a very interesting sexual orientation that touches upon various important social questions around risk and violence, pleasure, play and pain, bondage and consent, ritual and reality, private and public, gender, (in)equality, power, and transgression....
Freud reads Krafft-Ebing: A short Genealogy of Sadism
This contribution presents a reconstruction of the way the concept of sadism was introduced and anchored in psychoanalytic metapsychology. It focusses on the first two editions (1905 and 1910) of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Freud's singular...