Voluntary Servitude. Masochism and Morality

Author(s) : Judith Le Soldat, Editor : Andjela Samardzic, Editor : Vaia Tsolas, Editor : Michael Civin

Voluntary Servitude. Masochism and Morality

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 320
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97892
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032666259
  • ISBN 10 : 1032666250

Table of Contents


Part 1 - Pulsional Demand and Wish Fulfillment
1. Disentangling Aggression and Sexuality
2 The Identification with the Aggressor is not Happening
3. Remarkable Alliances
4. A “Mishap” in Germany
5. Three Lessons from an Objective Triumph
6. On the Necessity of Lying
7. The Ability to Remain Silent and the Task of Theory
8. A Disarming Contradiction
9. From Sadism to the Death Drive

Part 2 - The Economy of Excitation
1. The Drummer’s Dream
2. A Female Rescue Phantasy
3. The Physicist’s Dog
4. Somebody’s Late
5. The Diagnostic Dilemma
6. Two Paths to Masochism
7. Voluntary Servitude
8. The Search for the “Subjective Factor”
9. A Little Parapraxis
10. On the Utilization of Pulsional Energy
11. Aggression, the Distinction between the Sexes, and Infantile Neurosis
12. The Principle of the Death Drive
13. Masturbation Technique and Anxiety Signal

Part 3 - Masochistic Pleasure
1. A Contribution to Decreasing Tension
2. Pleasure and Duration
3. The Object of Identification
4. A Forgotten Cultural Achievement
5. Splendor and Misery of the Superego
6. Unavoidable Pain

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