...: u of Minnesota p, 1993 . Derrida, Jacques. “Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul: The Impossible Beyond of a Sovereign Cruelty.” Without Alibi . Ed. and trans. Peggy Kamuf. Stanford: Stanfordup, 2002 . 238 -80. ____. “Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel...

... takes center stage in this discussion, but the differences and nuances between the terms—destruction, aggression, mastery, and cruelty—remain relatively unexplored. Derrida, when he takes up the death drive in his later work, comments on the interchangeable use of these terms in Freud’s writings...

.... The masochist position sees the two as mirror opposites and inextricably connected. The concept of the nonrelation between sadism and masochism is importantly put forward by Gilles Deleuze in “Coldness and Cruelty,” a 1967 preface to an edition containing Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs , something...

... . 1 ( 1983 ): 34 – 45 . DeJean Joan . Literary Fortifications: Rousseau, Laclos, Sade . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1984 . Deleuze Gilles . Présentation de Sacher-Masoch . Paris : Minuit , 1967 . Trans. as Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty. Trans. McNeil Jean . New...

... (but thereby provokes, reinstates, reaffirms in its terri- fying proximity) in the autotelic circle of its self-affirmation. The inherent cruelty of the law—as Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud equally remind us— rewrites Kant’s success as his...

...Figure 1 “The Pendulum Swing.” Author’s diagram based on Gilles Deleuze’s description of the dialectic of the imagination in Coldness and Cruelty 22. ...

... the provocative comparison between genocide and cruelty to animals.5 Let us not forget that the possibility of experiencing life as less bearable than death belongs also in a sense to the “normality” of human...

... . Coldness and Cruelty. Masochism . Trans. McNeil Jean . New York Zone , 1989 . 9 – 138 . Freud Sigmund . Beyond the Pleasure Principle. 1920. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. Strachey James . Vol. 18 . London : Hogarth...

.... The antislavery requirement to anticipate the free and enlightened ex-slave in the consciousness of the slave imposed restrictions on what could be considered appropriate or acceptable forms of agency. Prince is shown chastising her owners for their cruelty, expressing a desire to be free, and working hard toward...

...-Masoch’s personal life is infamous,1 Deleuze is more interested in his writing. Deleuze’s 1967 essay “Coldness and Cruelty” is both an exemplar of his innovative reading style and his first explicit exploration of masochism. Deleuze’s...

... of the “good time” they had in committing acts of murderous violence. The cruelty was full of play ful conversation with the victims. Countless reports offer evidence of the efficient, systematic, calculated, and simultaneously , drawn-out, sadistic, and excessive nature of the burning of bodies. Though...

... was itself part of the pattern. There is something else in the film that matters for an academic reconsideration of Arendt’s work. She says twice in the film, “You can’t deny the huge difference between the unimaginable cruelty of the man and his mediocrity” ( Hannah ). And in her final speech...

... discipline. Like the cigarette the dandy is a subtle confluence, not an alternation, the marriage of two distinct sets of qualities: the cruelty of discipline, of martial loyalty, and the generosity of unbounded love. Their coincidence is discovered in the unholy marriage of the Soldier and the Gypsy, two...

... could be “among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing, or even condition them against it” ( Life 5). It is poignant that a woman who realized too early, and too well, that human cruelty could arise in the most unexpected of places was still pinning her hopes on the world of thought...

....: MIT P, 1995 . Deleuze, Gilles. “Coldness and Cruelty.” Masochism . Trans. Jean McNeil. New York: Zone, 1991 . 9 –138. Doane, Mary Ann. The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s . Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987 . Freud, Sigmund. “Femininity.” 1933. The Standard Edition...

... of starvation - bodies reduced to " 'bundles of acute angles' " (Conrad 67). Hence the significance of a recent advertising campaign on behalf of the British charity, the National Campaign for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NCPCC), which shows the emaciated body of a small child with the accompanying...

... Tsu to resist. She runs away and asks for a divorce “as is the custom in America.” Lin Fo, surprised by that particular assimilation of custom, confesses his dilemma to Adah, who upbraids him for his masculinist and Oriental cruelty...

..., was also—in its very moral fiber—a traumatic animal. In On the Geneal- ogy of Morals, he not only insisted upon the link between punishment and morality, but he confected the term Selbstierquälerei, “self animal torture/cruelty...

... sinister enough to warrant at least limited political engagement. His linking of poststructuralism with Nazism, philosophical anti-foundationalism with AIDS, gay sadomasochistic sex with love of political cruelty, and the "death of the subject" with indifference to life - all were ripe for expose...