Curing sadomasochism through transformation

Spring Publications announces the third revised edition of Thomas Moore's DARK EROS: Curing the Sadomasochism in Everyday Life  available for purchase. This edition contains a foreword by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig and a new afterword by Moore. He writes:

"The Marquis de Sade wrote obscene and disgusting books — I don’t call them novels — that are dismissed and condemned when read literally. But if you can treat everything he writes as metaphor, as an image speaking about a more subtle level of experience, you may find that Sade is a psychoanalyst far ahead of his time. It’s as though he writes in code, asking you not to read him simplistically, but to explore the largely hidden human desires we all have for things like revenge, secrecy, control, and manipulation. Just because we think them doesn’t mean that we act on them. But the dark thoughts and feelings are significant and require our acceptance. We may think that psychology helps us get free of such negative emotions, but Sade tricks us into seeing them not only as necessary but, in a deeply felt way, desirable."