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Gilles Deleuze’s essay offers a rigorous, historically grounded study of *Venus in Furs*, Leopold von Sacher‑Masoch’s seminal work that has come to define the literary image of masochism. Through close reading and philosophical inquiry, Deleuze explores how Masoch’s narrative re‑imagines love by desexualizing devotion while simultaneously sexualizing humanity’s collective history, thereby drawing an intimate connection between the practices of masochism and sadism. The text situates Masoch within broader debates in erotic literature, psychology, and German‑language criticism of the 19th century, and provides a comprehensive interpretation that transcends reductive caricatures of fetish, punishment, and domination.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: Philosophy/Ethics
Authors: Gilles Deleuze
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