How does the male masochist provide a metaphor for modern and postmodern power? Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy, and cultural theory, Mansfield challenges our fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era, arguing that masculine power has become masochistic. In the later twentieth [...]]]> http://www.psychosexual.com/masochism-the-art-of-power.html/feed 0 http://www.psychosexual.com/sadism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html http://www.psychosexual.com/sadism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:29:26 +0000 Albert http://www.psychosexual.com/?p=228 “The perfect counterpart to masochism is sadism,” wrote Austro-German sexologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his 1886 text Psychopathia Sexualis. “While in the former there is a desire to suffer and be subjected to violence, in the latter the wish is to inflict pain and use of violence.” When Krafft-Ebing wrote of sexual perversions in [...]]]> http://www.psychosexual.com/sadism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html/feed 0 http://www.psychosexual.com/pain-and-pleasure-masochism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html http://www.psychosexual.com/pain-and-pleasure-masochism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:29:29 +0000 Albert http://www.psychosexual.com/?p=191 Anytime one thinks they can apply a universal truth to humanity, it is bound to be contradicted. For example, pain and suffering is believed to be negative because they are not pleasurable. Enter the psychosexual disorder known as masochism. Sexual masochism has long captured the imaginations of psychologists and the curious. Sexual masochism is the [...]]]> http://www.psychosexual.com/pain-and-pleasure-masochism-as-a-psychosexual-disorder.html/feed 0