critical theory with slavoj zizek: This is the perverse attitude of adopting the position of the pure instrument of the big Other’s Will: it is not my responsibility, it is not me who is effectively doing it, I am merely an instrument of the higher Historical Necessity. The obscene jouissance of this situation is generated by the fact that I conceive of myself as exculpated for what I am doing: I am able to inflict pain on others with the full awareness that I am not responsible for it, that I merely fulfil the Other’s Will. The sadist pervert answers the question “How can the subject be guilty when he merely realizes an objective, externally imposed, necessity?” by subjectively assuming this objective necessity, by finding enjoyment in what is imposed on him.