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Both the [[masochist]] and the [[sadist]] locate themselves as the [[object]] of the invocatory [[drive]], the [[voice]].
However, whereas [[Freud]] argues that [[sadism]] is primary, [[Lacan]] argues that [[masochism]] is primary, and [[sadism]] is derived from it: "sadism is merely the disavowal of masochism."<ref>{{SllS11}} p.186</ref>
Thus, whereas the [[masochist]] prefers to experience the [[pain]] of [[existence]] in his own [[body]], the [[sadist]] rejects this [[pain]] and forces the [[Other]] to bear it.<ref>{{Ec}} p.778</ref>
[[Masochism]] occupies a special place among the [[perversion]]s, just as the invoking [[drive]] occupies a privileged place among the partial [[drive]]s; it is the "limit-experience" in the attempt to go ''beyond'' the [[pleasure principle]].
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