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ZAMBELLI, LAURA. "The deepest intimacy. A sociological account of Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) in contemporary Italy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/84016.
Full textCross, Patricia A. "Understanding sadomasochism an examination of current perspectives /." Connect to this title online, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/NQ42789.pdf.
Full textLagauzère, Damien. "Le masochisme : du sadomasochisme au masochisme social." Nantes, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006NANT3042.
Full textCross, Patricia A. "Understanding sadomasochism, an examination of current perspectives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/NQ42789.pdf.
Full textVanter, Emma Louise. "Sadomasochism : does sexual psychopathology inhabit a sexually diverse extreme?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538021.
Full textLohmüller, Torben. "Die verschlagene Lust : zur ästhetischen Subversion im Masochismus /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2859223&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textTurcotte, Yvan. "Vers une approche empirique du sadisme sexuel." Thèse, [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2765.
Full textOvesson, Charlotte. "Sextortyr eller frigörelse : Konstruktioner av sadomasochism i svenska dagstidningar 2007-2011." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12771.
Full textPowls, Jonathan. "Characteristics and developmental history of people with an interest in sadomasochism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434449.
Full textMoodley, Indira. ""A fine balance" : a case study of love, hatred and sadomasochism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6910.
Full textThis dissertation describes a clinical decision taken to separate an adolescent girl child from her mother and place her in the care of her father. This decision was considered imperative in light of the continued risks posed to the physical and emotional health of the child through continued living with her mother. The mother's combined presentation of hatred and sadomasochism, underlying a borderline personality structure, acted as a powerful obstacle in her being able to love her daughter. Using the theoretical tenets of self psychology to understand the clinical presentation of both mother and daughter, it emerged that the fragmented self-structure of the mother, which had its antecedents in her own traumatic childhood milieu did not permit an interpretive therapeutic approach. Instead work with both the mother and daughter required careful and continuous monitoring, and a flexible clinical stance especially when the therapy itself inadvertently retraumatised the mother. The advantage of the case study, the methodological design employed in this thesis, is that it enabled one to provide an in-depth study of a specific case, especially in light of issues that are considered unusual such as the separation that this intervention demanded. The case study also provided the opportunity to follow the progress of the psychotherapeutic treatment of the child both prior to and after the separation. A detailed discussion of the therapy provides an opportunity to reflect on the issues which informed the decision, the process and the outcome. Reflecting on the theoretical, research and clinical implications of the decision leads to the conclusion that the value of psychoanalytic theory cannot be undermined, especially as it provided the theoretical justification for the decision which has had a helpful outcome for the child concerned.
Nordling, Niklas M. "Many faces of sadomasochistic sex /." Åbo : Åbo akademi university, 2009. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb414144895.
Full textRathbone, June Alice. "Anatomy of masochism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300470.
Full textWalters, Ruth. "Utopias lost : feminism and the problem of masochism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282969.
Full textYost, Megan R. "Consensual sexual sadomasochism and sexual aggression perpetration : exploring the erotic value of power /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textPoutrain, Véronique. "Analyse interactionnelle des rapports sociaux de sexe et des rapports de pouvoir dans les relations sado-masochistes." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0101.
Full textRichter, Nicole Marie. "Our Veils Anticipate Our Shrouds: Eroticism in the Films of Catherine Breillat." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/420.
Full textSetzer, Katharine Adrienne. "Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54267.pdf.
Full textFulkerson, Anita. "Bound by consent: concepts of consent within the leather and bondage, domination, sadomasochism (BDSM) communities." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3717.
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Jakobsson, Hilda. ""Jag slog honom flera gånger och kysste honom mellan varje slag" : Incest, pedofili, sadomasochism och gotik i Carina Rydbergs roman Månaderna utan R." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för genusstudier, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78483.
Full textBeckmann, Andrea. "The social construction of 'Sadomasochism' : subjugated knowledges and the broader social meanings of this bodily practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26285.
Full textJakobsson, Hilda. "Flickstaden : Flickbokens diskurs och sadomasochism i Agnes von Krusenstjernas Ninas dagbok, Helenas första kärlek och Fröknarna von Pahlen." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för litteraturvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78481.
Full textAgnell, Emma. "Sadomasochism and compliance in the Twilight Saga : Female Submission and the Romance of Being Loved to Death." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23375.
Full textNahra, Cinara. "A morality for the third millennium : (prostitution, homosexuality and sadomasochism in the light of Kant and Mill)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415952.
Full textGadelha, José Juliano Barbosa. "O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/17047.
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This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latour’s symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispector’s literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques Rancière with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience.
Esta dissertação trata da experimentação com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criação antropológico e artístico, construindo uma poética da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realização de uma instalação-performativa que transmita os signos sensíveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teóricos vão da antropologia simétrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensível de Jacques Rancière, a filosofia nômade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensação e representação das aprendizagens, buscar-se-á seguir as linhas de força que permitam ao conhecimento antropológico-artístico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agências culturais e das agências naturais que, na guinada pós-estruturalista, disparam rumo às novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gêneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais máquinas de produção-injunção-reapropriação dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertação tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciências chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.
Demangeot, Fabien. "Fantasme et représentation dans l'oeuvre d'Alain Robbe-Grillet." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01016557.
Full textVan, Der Walt Herman. "Practitioner psychologists' understandings of bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadomasochism (BDSM) : shared or separate from those who practise it." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2014. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/13033/.
Full textCalvo, Juan. "La estética de la crueldad en la narrativa de Terenci Moix /." Connect to Digital dissertations. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textCarlström, Lotta. "Eskortverksamhet med fokus på försäljning av BDSM-tjänster." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24834.
Full textGILLERI, GIOVANNA. "Sexed/gendered subjectivities inside and outside international human rights law." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/333616.
Full textPühler, Simon Verfasser], Hartmut [Akademischer Betreuer] [Böhme, and Natascha [Akademischer Betreuer] Adamowsky. "Funny games : Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien / Simon Pühler. Gutachter: Hartmut Böhme ; Natascha Adamowsky." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1062627636/34.
Full textPühler, Simon [Verfasser], Hartmut [Akademischer Betreuer] Böhme, and Natascha [Akademischer Betreuer] Adamowsky. "Funny games : Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien / Simon Pühler. Gutachter: Hartmut Böhme ; Natascha Adamowsky." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100221818.
Full textGunbrandt, Annette. "Sexuell dominans : En kvalitativ studie av fyra sexuellt dominanta kvinnor." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social Anthropology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16600.
Full textDenna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur fyra sexuellt dominanta kvinnor uppfattar sin sexualitet. Särskilt inriktar den sig på hur kvinnorna definierar sig som sexuellt dominanta och vad dominans innebär för dem sexuellt men också till vardags och generellt. Vidare undersöks hur informanterna uppfattar sin sexuella dominans i relation till sin identitet och sitt identitetsskapande överlag. För att kunna verkställa syftet har fyra kvinnor intervjuats som alla definierar sig som sexuellt dominanta på ett eller annat vis. Fortsättningsvis inriktar sig uppsatsen på kvinnor som utövar sin sexuella dominans via aktiviteter och uttryck för dominans vanliga inom bdsm.
This thesis aims to examine how four sexually dominant women understand their sexuality. It specifically concentrates upon how the women defines themselves as sexually dominant and what dominance means to them sexually but also what it means to them in everyday life and in general. Additionally this essay examines how the informants understand their sexual dominance in relation to their identity and in shaping their identity. In order to carry out the purpose of this thesis four women who define themselves in one way or another as sexually dominant have been interviewed. Furthermore the study focuses upon women who practice their sexual dominance through activities and expressions that are common in the world of bdsm.
Butcher, Dick. "Mapping the shadow in the work of de Sade & Sacher-Masoch constellating sociological & psychological possibilities /." Connect to this title online, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ33525.
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Carlström, Lotta. "Ett slag för njutningen. En studie om BDSM-utövande inom relationer." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26347.
Full textFord, Ashley. "Willing Participant: The Emergent Sexuality of Post-Feminist Women." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1154.
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Gadelha, Josà Juliano Barbosa. "O sensÃvel e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16942.
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Esta dissertaÃÃo trata da experimentaÃÃo com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criaÃÃo antropolÃgico e artÃstico, construindo uma poÃtica da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realizaÃÃo de uma instalaÃÃo-performativa que transmita os signos sensÃveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teÃricos vÃo da antropologia simÃtrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensÃvel de Jacques RanciÃre, a filosofia nÃmade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensaÃÃo e representaÃÃo das aprendizagens, buscar-se-Ã seguir as linhas de forÃa que permitam ao conhecimento antropolÃgico-artÃstico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agÃncias culturais e das agÃncias naturais que, na guinada pÃs-estruturalista, disparam rumo Ãs novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gÃneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais mÃquinas de produÃÃo-injunÃÃo-reapropriaÃÃo dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertaÃÃo tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciÃncias chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.
This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latourâs symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaudâs theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispectorâs literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques RanciÃre with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience.
Bent, Jacquelyn. "Psychopathic traits in community samples : an examination of the relationship between psychopathic traits, disgust sensitivity, neurocognitive dysfunction and consensual sadomasochism in subclinical samples." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24334/.
Full textMelo, Marília Loschi de. "A dor no corpo : identidade , gênero e sociabilidade em festas BDSM no Rio de Janeiro." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2788.
Full textThis study consists on an ethnography in three public fetishist/sadomasochistic parties (self-called BDSM parties) that take place in Rio de Janeiro. My aim was to investigate this kind of sociability, focusing on two important themes in Social Sciences: parties and sexuality. Bibliographic review and fieldwork analysis search for a dialog with these two themes by means of considering identity and gender issues.
Robo, Arlette. "Délires et conduites d'agir dans les désorganisations psychotiques de l'adolescence : pour une compréhension métapsychologique." Paris 5, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA05H052.
Full textDuring the latter decade, the pathologies defined as acting out behaviors have been bestowed a large place within the metapsychological conceptualisation. In the course of adolescence, the body takes up a paradoxicalal room in a being who perceive transformations and has not yet integrated them. How to understand, coordinate, indeed organize the existence of mental symptomatologies positive ones, such as delirium,and negative ones such as acting out behaviors, among the psychotic desorders of adolescence? In our research, we perceive delirium and acting out behaviors as solutions for teenagers treated in a day hospital. This research is a longitudinal study upheld by the following hypothesis : Delirium and acting out behavior are symptoms trying to resolve the conflits between Narcissism and anti-Narcissism. To manage this research efficiently, we had recourse to clinical interviews with five teenagers, to projective personality tests ( Rorschach and T. A. T) as well as to clinical pieces of information from referents and staffs. The analysis of the pieces of information collected show that when teenagers are in the care of a suitable institution, their acting out behaviors may reveal an attempt to revitalize the sadomasochistic process at the care of the organisation of the narcissistic nucleus of the Ego
Bornlöf, Julia. "Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-175535.
Full textLindmark, Elin. ""Om jag får bestämma så bestämmer jag att inte bestämma" : En kvalitativ studie om varför vissa kvinnor väljer att vara sexuellt undergivna." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1099.
Full textFranco, Marie. "SM in Postmodern America." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532004486477585.
Full textDéry, Caroline. "Étude de la normativité sexuelle contemporaine : le cas d'une communauté de pratiques BDSM." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27502.
Full textGignac, Patrick Joseph. "Oppressive relationships/related oppressions ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and the role of gay identity in James Baldwin's Another country and Hubert Fichte's Versuch über die Pubertät /." Connect to this title online, 1996. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63422.pdf.
Full textNathanson, Shelby. "Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1629.
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Brown, Toni O. L. "“If Someone Finds Out You're a Perv:” The Experience and Management of Stigma in the BDSM Subculture." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1279225927.
Full textDa, Silva Jose. "Fault Lines: Queer Skinheads and Gay Male Subjectivity in the Film Praxis of Bruce LaBruce." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15836/1/Jose_Da_Silva_Thesis.pdf.
Full textDa, Silva Jose. "Fault Lines: Queer Skinheads and Gay Male Subjectivity in the Film Praxis of Bruce LaBruce." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15836/.
Full textSzabowski, Lara. "Seduction at the Boundary of Horror : The limits of bodily autonomy in sexuality." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-40300.
Full textPühler, Simon. "Funny games." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17063.
Full text"FUNNY GAMES. Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien" aims to reconstruct a history of pleasure and gratification through pain in the media since the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to classical sado-masochistic literature, the thesis focuses on movies in which modern forms of experiencing and desiring pain such as VIDEODROME (1983), I AM GUILTY (2005), THE HURT LOCKER (2008) and SHORTBUS (2006) manifest themselves. Central to the study are concepts of techno-imaginary wish machines and infernal devices, dynamised ego-apparatuses, that are experienced and expressed through the media of their time by writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and film directors such as Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, Leopold and Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Ernst Kapp, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke and Kathryn Bigelow. The present study, an attempt to secure the medial evidence and try it out at the same time, is meant most of all as an invitation to participate: to experience positive desire and lust while obsessively progressing through virtual worlds of dreams and nightmares and the real world of the human body, to open oneself to new experiences in order to gain both new knowledge and new desires. Anti-Oedipus as a textual videogame. The analytical tools employed in this study include findings from (structural) psychoanalysis, media sciences, (movie) philosophy, gender theory, the theory of violence, fetish theory and game theory as applied in cultural studies. They have proven to be very helpful in illuminating at least some aspects of the mystery that is the sado-masochist desire for pain.