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Krafft-Ebing used the terms in a very specific sense, to refer to a [[sexual]] [[perversion]] in which [[sexual]] [[satisfaction]] is dependent upon inflicting [[pain]] on others ([[sadism]]) or upon experiencing [[pain]] oneself ([[masochism]]).
When [[Freud]] took up the terms in his ''[[Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality]]'', he used them in the same sense as Krafft-Ebing.<ref>Freud, {{F}} 1905d</ref>
Following Krafft-Ebing, [[Freud]] posited an intrinsic connection between [[sadism]] and [[masochism]], arguing that they are simply the [[active]] and [[passive]] aspects of a single [[perversion]].
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] too argues that [[sadism]] and [[masochism]] are intimately related, both being related to the invocatory [[drive]]<ref>{{S11}} p.183</ref>
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>{{Sll}} 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 [[perversisperversion]]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 [[beyond the pleasure principle]].
== References ==
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[[Category:Sexuality]]
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[[Category:SexualityDictionary]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
