Les manifestations comportementales du sadisme commun et de la psychopathie sous-clinique suggèrent qu’ils seraient associés à des déficits affectifs en lien avec le traitement émotionnel. Il est proposé que les déficits affectifs associés au détachement émotionnel et au manque d’empathie chez les individus avec des tendances sadiques et les individus avec des traits psychopathiques seraient dus à des déficits au niveau de la reconnaissance émotionnelle faciale (REF). L’objectif principal de la présente étude était de clarifier l’association entre les tendances sadiques, les traits psychopathiques et la capacité de reconnaissance émotionnelle faciale. Le recrutement des participants s’est effectué dans des maisons de transition provinciales, dans un centre jeunesse, dans un centre d’intervention en délinquance sexuelle ainsi que dans un organisme venant en aide aux hommes aux prises avec des problématiques de violence. Les analyses statistiques ont été menées sur un échantillon se composant d’hommes délinquants (N = 81). La collecte des données s’est effectuée à l’aide de questionnaires en ligne comprenant des informations sociodémographiques ainsi que le Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies (VAST) et le Self-Report Psychopathy – Short Form (SRP-SF) ainsi que par une tâche de reconnaissance émotionnelle faciale en immersion virtuelle. Suite aux analyses descriptives, des analyses corrélationnelles de type r de Pearson ainsi que des analyses de régression linéaire multiple ont été menées sur l’ensemble des données. Les résultats suggèrent que les tendances sadiques n’étaient pas associées à des déficits au niveau de la reconnaissance émotionnelle faciale, au contraire, le score aux échelles du sadisme commun prédisait une meilleure habileté à reconnaître les expressions d’émotions. Les résultats suggèrent également que la composante de l’affect plat de la psychopathie serait associée avec une moins bonne performance pour la reconnaissance émotionnelle faciale des émotions en général ainsi qu’à un déficit spécifique au niveau de la reconnaissance de la tristesse. Les résultats sont interprétés en fonction des objectifs spécifiques de cette recherche. / The behavioral manifestations of everyday sadism and subclinical psychopathy suggest an association with emotional deficits and with emotional processing deficits. It is suggested that the emotional coldness and the lack of empathy associated with everyday sadism and subclinical psychopathy are due to facial affect recognition (FAR) deficits. The aim of this study is to assess the association between everyday sadism, subclinical psychopathy and facial affect recognition. The participants of the present study were recruited in provincial halfway houses, in youth centers, in an intervention center for sexual offenders and in an organization offering help to man with a history of violent behaviors. The statistical analyses were conducted on a sample comprised on male general offenders (N = 81). The collection of the data was made using an online questionnaire comprised of sociodemographic information, the Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies (VAST), the Self-Report Psychopathy – Short Form (SRP-SF) and a facial affect recognition task. Adding to descriptive analyses, Pearson’s r correlation analyses and multiple regression analyses were performed to assess the respective influence of sadistic tendencies and psychopathic traits on predicting facial affect recognition performance. No general nor specific facial affect recognition deficits were found in relation to sadism. On the opposite, sadism was associated with a better performance for overall facial affect recognition and sadness recognition. Results suggest that higher levels of callous affect are associated with a reduced overall facial affect recognition performance and a specific impairment for sadness recognition. The results are discussed according to the specific objectives of this study.

Ce mémoire a été fait sous la tutelle de Jean Proulx. Il a été évalué par un jury composé de Denis Lafortune, Jean Proulx et Catherine Arseneault. Suite à l'évaluation du mémoire, ce dernier a été recommandé à la liste d'honneur du doyen et du recteur, et a été soumis pour le prix du meilleur mémoire de la FESP 2022. / Encore à ce jour, le portrait de l’agresseur sexuel sadique rapporté dans la littérature ne fait pas consensus, et ce notamment dû aux limites des études desquelles il découle (ex. : définition du sadisme sexuel qui ne fait pas consensus, échantillon hétérogène, temporalité fixée à l’âge adulte). Dans l’objectif de combler ces limites, nous avons examiné, à partir d’un échantillon composé de 206 agresseurs sexuels de femmes adultes, incarcérés au Québec (Canada), et sur la base d’une définition du sadisme sexuel validée empiriquement, la Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SESAS), et d’une centaine de variables s’étalant de l’enfance à la phase post-délictuelle, ce qui distingue les agresseurs sexuels sadiques (n = 69) des non-sadiques (n = 137). Pour ce faire, des analyses bivariées (chi-deux) ont été réalisées. Ces analyses ont révélé que les agresseurs sexuels sadiques et non-sadiques de femmes adultes se distinguent sur plusieurs aspects, notamment de nature développementale (ex. : victimisation avant l’âge de 18 ans), psychologique (ex. : personnalité, psychopathologie), sexologique (ex. : fantaisies sexuelles déviantes) et criminologique (ex. : modus operandi). En outre, nous avons examiné, auprès du même échantillon, si le sadisme sexuel constitue ou non un phénomène hétérogène. À cette fin, des analyses de classes latentes ont été réalisées sur les items de la SESAS, lesquelles nous ont révélé que le sadisme sexuel ne constitue pas un phénomène hétérogène, se manifestant différemment selon les caractéristiques de l’agresseur sexuel. Les résultats susmentionnés et leurs implications théoriques et cliniques sont discutés. / To date, there has been no consensus in the literature on the characteristics of the sadistic sexual aggressor. This has been largely the result of the limitations of studies of this phenomenon (e.g., idiosyncratic definitions of sexual sadism, heterogeneous samples, temporality fixed at adulthood). In an effort to address these limitations, we identified the distinguishing features of sadistic (n = 69) and nonsadistic (n = 137) sexual aggressors against adult women, all of whom were incarcerated in Quebec (Canada), using the Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SESAS), an empirically validated measurement instrument for sexual sadism, as well as other variables. Bivariate (chi-square) analyses revealed that sadistic and nonsadistic sexual aggressors of adult women differed in several ways, including developmental (e.g., victimization before age 18), psychological (e.g., personality, psychopathology), sexological (e.g., deviant sexual fantasies), and criminological (e.g., modus operandi). To determine whether sexual sadism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, latent class analyses were conducted on the SESAS items. These analyses revealed that sexual sadism is not heterogeneous, manifesting itself differently depending on the characteristics of the sexual aggressor. The above results and their theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.

Ce projet de recherche-création s’applique à analyser le motif de la destruction dans le cinéma extrême. M’intéressant plus particulièrement à une frange underground et «infréquentable» du genre et au lien souterrain unissant celle-ci et l’oeuvre du Marquis de Sade, j’étudierai la façon dont la destruction y est représentée (et épuisée) à travers un passage de la destruction de l’autre à la destruction de soi. La partie écrite de ce mémoire s’accompagne d’un moyen-métrage, Une autre journée (voir Annexe 2) ainsi que d’une installation vidéo préliminaire, Your heart out (voir Annexe 1). / This research-creation project aims to analyse the motif of destruction in extreme cinema. With a specific interest toward an underground and « unacceptable » part of the genre and its unspoken connection to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, I will attempt to show how destruction is represented (and exhausted) therein through a passage from the destruction of others to a destruction of one’s self. The written portion of this thesis is accompagnied by a medium-lenght film, Une autre journée [Another day] (see Annexe 2) as well as a preleminary video installation, Your heart out (see Annexe 1).

While the term sadomasochism might conjure cursory images of whips, chains, and leather-clad fetishists, this thesis delves deeper into sadomasochistic theory to analyze dynamics of power and powerlessness represented by a chosen sample of literary relationships. Using two contemporary works of vampire literature—Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series—I examine how power is structured by and between male and female characters (and vampires and humans), and particularly emphasize the patriarchal messages these works' regressive sexual politics engender. Psychoanalysis and feminist theory are employed to support my overarching argument following the gendered dynamics of male sadism and female masochism (and vampire sadism and human masochism), as this dyad reflects men's and women's "normalized" roles of power and powerlessness, respectively, in today's society. Sadomasochistic relationships as depicted in this literature are created through mutual contracts or, what I refer to as, sociocultural sadomasochism to reflect the gendered power imbalances inherent in patriarchy. By concluding with readers' responses to these franchises, this thesis further attempts to determine why such unequal and oppressive relationships are desirable. Since vampires as Gothic figures embody what specific cultures dread yet desire, this literature possesses frightening implications—gender roles are conservative and masculinity is privileged in fiction and, by extension, in twenty-first-century American culture.

This thesis analyses selected paintings and aspects of life of the Italian Renaissance in terms of the aesthetic properties of sadistic and masochistic symptomatologies and creative production, as these have been explored by philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Marcel Henaff, and Gilles Deleuze. One question which arises from this analysis, and is considered in this thesis, is of the relation between sexual perversion and history, and in particular between experiences of violence, (dis)pleasure and desire, and historically specific forms of discourse and power, such as legislation on rape; myths and practices concerning marriage alliance; the depiction of such myths and practices in art; religion; and family structures. A second question which this thesis explores is the manners in which sadistic and masochistic artistic production function politically, to bolster pre-existing gender ideologies or to subvert them. Finally, this thesis considers the relation between sadism and masochism and visuality, both by bringing literary models of perversion to an interpretation of paintings, and by exploring the amenability of different genres of visual art to sadism and masochism respectively.

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Preferences for sexual arousal by overstated dominance and submission in sex is categorized as F65.5, sadomasochism, according to ICD, but this behaviour is called BDSM among the general public. The ground of these preferences could be ultimately biological. These preferences reflect behavioural strategy which enables to gain higher reproductive success. Men and women who were sexually aroused by a submissive partner had more male relatives than men and women with other preferences. Contrary to the women, the dominant men reported themselves as more attractive. Women who were aroused by a higher-ranking partner considered themselves more attractive. Sons of couples in which was hierarchical disparity had more siblings than sons of "equal" couples or couples with no hierarchical disparity. Daughters of hierarchically disparate couples had more brothers than daughters of "both dominant" partners. Concurrently, number and gender of offspring as well as self- reported attractiveness are likely to be criteria of the reproductive success in humans. It is also interesting that hierarchically disparate couples, without regard to gender of higher-ranking partner, reached higher reproductive success than "equal" couples. Individuals who preferred higher- or lower-ranking partner were also aroused by...

Preferences for sexual arousal by overstated dominance and submission in sex is categorized as F65.5, sadomasochism, according to ICD, but this behaviour is called BDSM among the general public. The ground of these preferences could be ultimately biological. These preferences reflect behavioural strategy which enables to gain higher reproductive success. Men and women who were sexually aroused by a submissive partner had more male relatives than men and women with other preferences. Contrary to the women, the dominant men reported themselves as more attractive. Women who were aroused by a higher-ranking partner considered themselves more attractive. Sons of couples in which was hierarchical disparity had more siblings than sons of "equal" couples or couples with no hierarchical disparity. Daughters of hierarchically disparate couples had more brothers than daughters of "both dominant" partners. Concurrently, number and gender of offspring as well as self- reported attractiveness are likely to be criteria of the reproductive success in humans. It is also interesting that hierarchically disparate couples, without regard to gender of higher-ranking partner, reached higher reproductive success than "equal" couples. Individuals who preferred higher- or lower-ranking partner were also aroused by...