acknowledgments
introduction
a pleasure must be incredibly intense
part 1. the classic counterpleasures
1. the literary eroticization of the death drive
Sadism and Masochism as narrative structures
2. Sadism
3. Masochism
4. asceticism
seducing the divine
part 2. contemporary practices and pleasures
5. theoretical displacement
6. m-powerment
7. switch/hit
taking it from the top
8. unspeakable pleasures
love is a series of scars
notes
bibliography
index