Sadomasochism entails enjoyment, so a sadomasochist cannot also be repressed

Evidence

Yet the idea that Smiley is sadomasochistic quite clearly contradicts the idea that he is repressed. For sadomasochism entails enjoyment, not repression. Far from being repressed, it’s clear that Smiley is driven – driven by something which will not allow him to ever recline into happy retirement any more than he could settle into the pleasures of conjugal life, were they available to him. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 162

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sadistic enjoyment requires victims who can really suffer yet lack full moral status — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 782; The pleasure principle is itself affectless and unreflexive, so pleasure is not an emotion — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 900; The will to dominate presupposes sadism, not vice versa (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The pleasure principle is itself affectless and unreflexive, so pleasure is not an emotion #qualifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 900
• The will to dominate presupposes sadism, not vice versa #complicates (0.80)
• Sadism seeks to capture an unconditioned freedom within a determined technical mechanism #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 996
• Sadistic enjoyment requires victims who can really suffer yet lack full moral status #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 782
• Sadism is an illusory attempt to capture freedom through flesh #complicates (0.75)