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That the work of Sade anticipates Freud, be it in respect of the catalogue of perversions, is a stupid thing to say, which gets repeated endlessly among literary types; the fault, as always, belongs to the specialists.
Mt¡ <põvat,<ref> Choir of [[Oedipus]] at Colonus, verse 1225.</ref> not to be [[born]], his malediction, less holy than that of Oedipus, does not bear him among the Gods, but is eternalized:
a) in the work of which, dismissing it with the back of his hand, Jules Janin shows us the unsinkable survival, having it saluted by the [[books ]] which mask it, if we believe him, in every respectable [[library]], Saint John Chrysostom or the ‘’Pensées’’.
Sade's work is boring, you agree in saying, yes, as thick as thieves, Mister Judge and Mister Academician, but still able to make you one by the other, one and the other, one in the other, get upset.<ref> Cf. Maurice Garçon, L'afaire Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1957. He cites J. Janin in La revue de Paris of 1834 in his plea, pp. 84-90. Second reference:Jean Cocteau, as cited [[witness]], writes that Sade is boring, not without having recognized in him the [[philosopher]] and the moralizer.</ref>
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