Tuli vastaan tällainen:
Moore, Alison M. Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology. Lexington Books, 2015. ja tiivistelmäkin siitä.
Sadism as fascistic, masochism as postmodern - these are the sexual myths associated with modernity which this book critiques via an historical account of their discursive emergence. Sexual Myths of Modernity reconsiders the intellectual milieux in which the Viennese psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing formulated the neologisms 'Sadismus' and 'Masochismus', and presents a revised understanding of the character of Sigmund Freud's uptake of these terms. The central motif in such definitions of perversion is the binding of sex to historical teleology - the notion that perversions can be aligned to progress, civilization and barbarism. This motif thereafter haunted a wide range of intellectual attempts to account for torture, genocide and war. Sexual Myths of Modernity traces an intellectual genealogy from the work of Krafft-Ebing, to that of Freud, to that of the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno/Horkheimer, and then to the plethora of theoretical, literary and cinematic visions of Nazism as sadomasochistic generated since the nineteen sixties. Alongside such visions is an equally teleological attempt to recuperate masochism as an ironic postmodern opposite to sadism. The vision of Nazi perpetrators as sadists, along with the account of masochism as postmodern transgression, have become some of the most problematic and widely diffused sexual myths of our time. But their embedded assumption of a relation between violence, history and perversion owe everything to nineteenth-century habits of thinking.
