Sade’s fictional world is populated by libertine beasts. But at no point do they claim to be disciples of some philosophy of pleasure, eroticism or freedom. What they implement is a desire to destroy the other and to destroy themselves through sexual excess. Nature, as Sade understands it, is murderous, passionate, and excessive. Whereas the Encyclopaedists tried to explain the world, Sade constricted an Encyclopedia of Evil based upon the need for a strict apprenticeship in boundless joissance. The perverse sexual act is primarily a narrative, a funeral operation, a macabre form of education. It is as ordered as a grammar & as devoid of affection as a lesson in rhetoric. “ — Elizabeth Rodinesco, Our Dark Side, p31

Jujutsu With Zizek