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high-level executive and the masochistic ritual

example · psychoanalysis/Lacan · retold in 3 talks

The more authority a high executive holds, the more they require a private masochistic fantasy (visiting a dominatrix) to sustain them, showing that the explicit social link must be propped up by fantasy.

As told 2

“The more you are in command the more you need some fantasy realized in the sense of masochistic ritual which sustains you.”
“Sit down with your partner and treat it as a complex bureaucratic task... all of a sudden you will get caught into this totally non-erotic bureaucratic procedure. It will become a source of additional sexualization.”

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The more authority a high executive holds, the more they require a private masochistic fantasy (visiting a dominatrix) to sustain them, showing that the explicit social link must be propped up by fantasy., illustrating fantasy,master's discourse,surplus enjoyment
The obsessional represses guilty pleasure by self-punishment, but the punishment itself becomes pleasurable. Žižek offers a comic solution: treat sex as a bureaucratic task with a written checklist, the non-erotic procedure becomes an additional source of sexualization., illustrating surplus enjoyment,less is more,regulation as pleasure