In 1905 Sigmund Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality posited a dialectic between the thinking of Masoch's and that of Marquis de Sade's creating the term Sadomasochism and explaining that "a person who feels pleasure in producing pain in someone else in a sexual relationship is also capable of enjoying as pleasure any pain which he may himself derived from sexual relation."[3] Then in the intellectual ferment of Post World War II theorists like Gilles Deleuze broke apart the duality of sadomasochism. In Deleuze's seminal essay "Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty", he lays out eleven differences between sadism and masochism, in particular sadism's anarchist-like desires to inflict pain contrasted to masochism's processes, rules and contracts used to control pain.
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