It is in so far as the subject makes himself the object of another will that the sado-masochistic drive…constitutes itself. …The sadist himself occupies the place of the object, but without knowing it, to the benefit of another, for whose jouissance he exercises his action as sadistic pervert.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK, on the sadist who more or less consciously imagines an Other who would sanctify his sadism http://ift.tt/2dr9GhD