guilt and shame

The difference between guilt and shame lies in the direction of the accusation: you feel guilty when you think you are bad, and you feel ashamed when others do – or could do – bad.

For despite this distinction, injustice can occur in experience, even beyond the lie of external morality.
In this way, one feels guilt without actually being guilty; one feels ashamed without someone else pointing their finger at one.

condemnation and morality

After all, one is damned if this Christian-bourgeois heritage (which is certainly not limited to this one root) is combined in its conspiracy with libidinal desire:

Sadomasochism is then the devil, born from the shameful Christian woman and the sinful Christian's desire, who fear, long for and finally ritualize punishment - executing or receiving it.

Death and Drive

The source and direction of this self-consuming drive, however, is by no means social and natural death as the ultimate outcome, but rather its mere proximity in the attempt to escape the final fall into it, the final turning to life at the last second as a compulsion.

Sex is thus a rebellion, but still trapped in the corset of the law, conservative, cynical and anti-conventional at the same time.

Guilt and shame ultimately have to be there, they have to stay there – to drive us.
But sweat and screaming are her happy children, a foretaste of the freedom that free and uninhibited love promises…

This, however, only happened when the stubborn demon of her grandfathers no longer nested in the tortured mind of the moralist who had become immoral.