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To put up with any one of these things, let alone all of them, requires an almost monstrous lust for effacement--a taste for masochism . These women are character studies in the most terrifying sort of selflessness, the kind that results from the failure to develop a self.
,” “Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Murder, Madrigals, and Masochism,” and “The Iconography of Fanny Hill : How to Illustrate a Dirty Book”), but they are not pornographic; others are somewhat more clinical (“Johnson and Boswell: `Vile Melancholy' and `The Hypochondriack”); all exhibit a quality of writing rarely encountered.
One may call it masochism, or self-denigration, or self-hatred, but it's a good thing all the same that she dares, at last, to look herself in the face.
In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
Masochism comes from the name of the demented 19 th -century novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who described the relevant eponymous practices in his writings.