"A very erudite, comprehensive, and searching study, which
investigates masochism from a variety of perspectives". -- Elaine
Showalter, Princeton University
Individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to
cruel discipline. While that predilection was noted as early as the
sixteenth century, masochism was not codified as a concept until
1890. According to John K. Noyes, its invention reflected a crisis
in the liberal understanding of subjectivity and sexuality which
continues to inform discussions of masochism today. In essence, it
remains a political concept.
Viennese physician Richard yon Krafft-Ebing coined the term
masochism, based on the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Noyes
analyzes the social and political problems that inspired the
concept, suggesting, for example, that the triumphant expansion of
European colonialism was in part animated by an ambivalence in
masculine sexuality.
Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with
scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through
Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of O.
Analysis of Freud's vastly influential rereading of masochism
precedes an exploration of the work of his successors, including
Wilhem Reich, Theodor Reik, Helene Deutsch, and Karen Horney. Noyes
suggests that the thematics of feminine masochism emerged only
gradually from an exclusively male concept.
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