a scene of passive suffering, or subjection, is staged which simultaneously sustains and threatens the subject’s being - only insofar, that is, as being remains foreclosed, primordially repressed. From this perspective, a new approach opens up to the recent artistic practices of sado-masochistic performance. In such practices, isn’t this very foreclosure ultimately undone? In other words, what if the open assuming/staging of the fantasmatic scene of primordial “passionate attachment” is.. subversive?

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