“the masochist pervert..occupies the position of the object instrument of the other’s desire..-..through serving his (feminine) victim, he posits her as the hystericized/divided subject who “doesn’t know what she wants.”” – “the pervert knows it for her, that is, he pretends to speak from the position of knowledge (about the other’s desire) that enables him to serve the other.” – slavoj zizek
“For most of the male perversions … their … motive is the desire to preserve the phallus” – Jacques Lacan
“Perversion..is an attitude of self-objectivization or self-instrumentalization. Whereas the typical hysterical fear is to become a tool of the other” – Slavoj Zizek. via simongros.com
“Perversion is..an (ultimately deeply conservative, nostalgic) attempt to install the law artificially, in the desperate hope that we will then take this self-posited limitation “seriously,” and..a..desperate attempt to codify the very transgression of the Law.” – Slavoj Zizek
“The only successful sexual relationship occurs when the fantasies of the two partners overlap. …with a fantasy like that, who needs a personality?” – Slavoj Zizek via lavarunner
“The sadist occupies the place of the object ‘to the benefit of an [imagined] other, for whose jouissance he exercises his action’. The executioner works for the enjoyment of the Other, not for his own: he becomes a sole instrument of the Other’s Will.” – S.Zizek – “And in so-called “totalitarianism”, this illegal agent-instrument of the law, the Sadeian executioner, appears as such in the shape of the Party, agent-instrument of historical Will. ..By means of occupying himself the place of the object – of making himself the agent-executor of the Other’s Will – he avoids the division constitutive of the subject and transposes his division upon his other.” – Slavoj Zizek
