ABSTRACT
In 1795, Marquis de Sade published one of his principal works, Philosophy in the Boudoir; a book that came after several years of imprisonment and a number of scandalous incidents of its auteur that often troubled the French magistrates. Eight years earlier, in 1787, I. Kant wrote The Critique of Practical Reason, a major philosophical oeuvre, which expanded Kant’s contribution in the terrain of ethical speculation. The instrumentalization of Kantian thought endorsed Nazism, as the mythological disguise and expansion of liberalism. The perverse scenes of Sade’s writings are snapshots of an emotionless capitalist life and reified social relations that lie under the veil of pseudo-sentimentality and intellectualism. The domination of the Sadean hero aims at nothingness, an empty space ingrained by evil. The Sadean pervert mistreats Kant’s fundamental lie for setting his ploy. Jacques Lacan is fully aware that his actions are penalized, just as Eichmann was certain that his actions would be rewarded by his master.
