This article goes into the topic of masochism, based on data from the biography and work of Sacher-Masoch, described in the writing of Gilles Deleuze. Readers of Deleuze's Venus in Furs will learn that Sacher-Masoch points out the formal, aesthetic and contractual aspects of masochism, proposed by Deleuze. We justify the importance of directly reading Sacher-Masoch to glean aspects of the logic of masochism that have not been taken into account in recent studies on the topic.
Masochism; Sacher-Masoch; psychoanalysis; literature