“…Using what Lacan calls “hontologie”, and bringing up the psychoanalytical category of the “real”, the point is to define a “shame of living” that is very different from guilt: a way for the subject to go through their identifications so as to feel the limit which sets the substance of their being. The example of
Bob Flanagan, the famous “supermasochist”, will allow us to show how a particular experience of shame can contribute to an erotic renewal from the point where a subject finds themselves on the threshold of their own disappearance.…”
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