Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LUCIENNE FRAPPIER-MAZUR

Titel

An Ordered Indistinction: The Protocol of the Orgy and the Reduction of the Feminine

Ist Teil von

• Writing the Orgy, 2016, p.22-57

Auflage

537.59

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sade’s text alternates between activity and passivity, but active aggressiveness predominates. The desire for mastery is already inherent in the gesture of writing, but it dominates the staging of the orgy and imprints on it the most rigorous order. The paradox of the hierarchy of head over body is that the head gives orders to the agents as well as to the victims, but only in the service of sexual pleasure. In this way, hierarchy disciplines the orgy, but with no loss of heterogeneity. The erotic figures and motifs that contribute to this protocol fall into four types of operation,