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Diminishing to nothing: relations between the masochism, the feminine and the mask

This paper demonstrates that the feminine doesn’t have an inherent masochist character. The supposed feminine masochism would be one of the masks used by the feminine as means to find a place as well as to attract the male’s desire. Yet we conclude that there are some partnerships so devastating that they can diminish the subject to nothing.

Psychoanalysis; Literature; Masochism; Feminine; Mask


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