ABSTRACT
The sense of guilt is the most accessible state that marks morality and a distinctive feature of subjectivity only the subject of language can experience guilt, as an indivisible and ubiquitous feature of the law. In this regard, guilt can be a valuable thread for exploring Marquis de Sade’s relation to Kantian ethics and its implication for fascism and perversion. The Sadean fantasy is self-annihilating; it functions as the screening of a desire that aims at destroying itself. Pierre Klossowski writes, Evil has to break out once and for all, the tares have to flourish so that the spirit can tear them up and destroy them. The ethics of the real requests the realization of the infinite (desire), an act with a transformative vigour for socio-political relations. Guilt paves the free way to enjoyment. Guilt takes the form of a dilemma, because it is rooted in the ethical choice the subject has to make.
