In Fifty Shades, the 'somebody' bigger with whom the shrinking Ana can be seen to
masochistically 'fuse' is Grey, the billionaire giant-among-men.
Manufacturers are all too willing -- and maybe, sometimes even
masochistically -- to raise the bar, all thanks to users' expectations, which the former takes -- well, should take -- seriously.
For Fromm, these developmental crises may be resolved badly in the form of the individual attempting to sadistically control, objectify, and inanimate objects, others, and knowledge, or
masochistically abdicating freedom and agency to a magical helper.
I dream, I close my eyes for a few seconds, I close them violently,
masochistically. I go blind.
When USA and China put their economic advantage above everything else, we would be acting
masochistically if we did not take advantage of resources generated here at home.
She
masochistically hopes to endure their spectacle of cruelty, "to live on fire and not to feel the pain!" (272).
Only when we
masochistically envision ourselves as such selves do we feel the need to punish ourselves by quailing before divine commands, or before Kant's tribunal of pure practical reason.
Thus not only could they triumphantly efface the last residual differences between spectacle and the sphere of cultural production that the neo-avant-garde in its more complex postwar figures and moments had still desperately attempted to maintain; they could also extend the legitimation of spectacle's regime deeper into the registers of subject formation, making their audiences
masochistically celebrate their own proper subjection to spectacle as the universally valid and incontestable condition of experience.
He is spellbound by the enormities of the screen and of "Africa." He surrenders dangerously,
masochistically, to the darkness and to African figures, and through this surrender he achieves some measure of erotic identity.
And seeing that, I couldn't - and can't - help wondering, how and why this country, that could be so rich and prosperous, has managed to bring itself to the brink of ruin - being, so it seems, almost
masochistically hooked up with never ending power games.
In recent years, a number of critics have identified a trend within these films in which white male protagonists
masochistically submit to extreme forms of bodily abuse.