Issue 42 (Autumn 2009) Pages – 21-56

This essay was to have served as a preface to Philosophy in the Boudoir.2 It appeared in the review Critique (191, April, 1963) in the manner of a review of the edition of the works of Sade for which it was destined: Éd. du Cercle du livre précieux, 1963, 15 vol.

SECTION A Rectification of the Ethical Position of Two Thousand Years 1. (765)3 To say that the work of Sade anticipates Freud, even as a catalogue of perversions, is a stupidity repeated in the literature, thanks, as usual, to the specialists……