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Deleuze's attitude towards fetishistic desire reveals important ethical commitments found throughout his philosophical corpus, bridging the gap between works written alone and those co-written with Félix Guattari. This essay traces the function of the “scene” in Deleuze's writings fromColdness and CrueltythroughThousand PlateaustoCinema 2, showing its kinship with the concepts of “flesh” and “montage” in Merleau-Ponty and Lacan, and bringing Deleuze into dialogue with feminist and queer accounts of fetishistic sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the insight and philosophy of flirting with masochism according to Sergei Eisenstein. It notes that sadism and masochism serve as complementary components of sadomasochism. It points out that the Eisensteinian body often assumes a masochistic posture signifying the study of differential mechanisms. It points out that Eisenstein tried to support clinical's radical potential.

The article focuses on the contracts, accounts, and reflections of performance art as masochistic practice of the exhibition "The Chymical Wedding" held at Tate Britain in London, England on January 1, 2008. It notes that the exhibition was performed to act out a masochistic pact to relate desiring bodies and laws on their association. It also engages a state of abjection to get involved the masochistic reversal of paternal law.

The article focuses on the enigmatic qualities of masochism, sadism, and philosophical muse. It notes that a technology of self can provide an image of power and desire in transition as well as an ontological emergence mapping. Frida Beckman explains that the theories of female masochism is still psychoanalytical. It notes that the ambivalence of cruelty which signifies violence imposition signals for a possible kind of ethics.

The article reports on the study which examines the life of Japanese novelist and rightwing activist Yukio Mishima. It states that Mishima has shown his sexual perversity through his sadomasochistic sexuality in a diverse range of media and sociocultural sites. It adds that Mishima has performed in varied hyperbolic reiterations of textualizing his masochistic desires and sexual performances.

The article reports on the study which examines the sadism and masochism in the writings of Richard Rorty. It states that sex-related themes appear in Rorty's works which only uses them to promote his pragmatist agenda. It demonstrates that Rorty has used the insights from famous philosophers such as Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one that addresses the visual identity of sadism and masochism, another by Nick Mansfield on the predominance of male masochism, and another by John Noyes on the social constructivist analysis of masochism.

The article reports on the study which examines and compares the autoimmunity to read power and freedom in masochism of Jacques Derrida and Mario Perniola's concept of enigma. It reveals aspects of modern and postmodern configuration of subjectivity in freedom and power. It adds that masochism challenges the secret power of perversion but not in order to present power as shameful to be ridiculed.

The article reports on the study which reflects the ambivalence of Gilles Deleuze in his essay on Sade and Masoch's "Coldness and Cruelty." It examines the value fo Deleuze's conception for understanding the practitioners' use of the terms sadism, masochism, and sadomasochism which describe to identify compatible sexual partners. It adds that male sadism and female masochism are manifested as natural impulses of sexual pathologies in weak or latent form.

The article reports on the study which examines the argument of the special form of masochism which articulates the problem of cutting oneself. It deals with the definition of masochism in the crucial instance that remains an open wound which resists to close. It contends that a distinction between 'the cut' and 'the split' has a crucial significance in female masochism.

The article reports on the study which traces the deployment of the masochist in two critiques including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It notes that the first is a critique that involves the psychoanalytic interpretation of sadomasochism while the second deals with a critique of hylomorphism. It adds that the study intends to consider the deployments of the masochist based on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari.

Explores the influence of C. G. Jung on the concept of Gilles Deleuze regarding rebirth and incest. Central thesis of Deleuze regarding masochism; Significance of incest as a symbol of rebirth; Achievement of the self-punishment of the masochist.

Discusses masochism and the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Comparison of the work of Masoch with that of Marquis de Sade; Impossibility of an encounter between a sadist and a masochist; Differences of the rituals of sadism and masochism.