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Article: The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sado-Masochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911.(Review) (book review)
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The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sado-Masochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911. By Laura Hinton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xiii + 279 pages.
In the early Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Freud first famously articulated his theory of sado-masochism. Over a scant few pages in an already slender volume, the father of psychoanalysis argued that the perversion of finding sexual pleasure in giving and taking pain constituted an oscillation of masculine and feminine identity within the human subject. Freud's opening salvo on the gendered meanings of sado-masochism laid the groundwork for several later influential papers, ...