ABSTRACT
'Sade is surrealist in sadism' announces the first Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. True to their word, the interest in Sade and sadism figures across surrealism by both men and women surrealists. André Breton and Louis Aragon were already familiar with Sade and some of his writings through the days when they made visits to Guillaume Apollinaire. Courtly love refers to the Provencal poetry of the twelfth century, written by the troubadours of Languedoc and spoken in Provencal across southern Europe. Lacan seems to give differing interpretations to the function of the 'detour in the psychic economy' of sublimation. The source of 'primary masochism' is as a leftover product from the infant's development of its libido, from auto-feroticism to the formation of the ego, following the lines of the erotogenic Zones that are mapped in/as the infant's body as the product of its rearing.
