Deleuze suggests that our poor
understanding of Masoch's texts is one of the main culprits in making the
confused unity that is sadomasochism. In fact, according to Deleuze, he offers
us a new way of understanding existence by displacing sexuality into the world
of power (M 12). Thus, Deleuze tells us, Masoch was in fact, "a great
anthropologist
Sadomasochism
is one of these misbegotten names, a semiological howler. We found in every case that what appeared to
be a common 'sign' linking the two perversions together turned out on
investigation to be in the nature of a mere syndrome which could be further
broken down into irreducibly specific symptoms of the one or the other
'perversion'. 
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