ATP: BwO What's with the masochism? D&G are using this kind of program to reveal the way that desiring machines attach themselves to the BwO. Sewing the body shut, as the paranoid body does, and flogging the body (attaching "waves of pain" to the body). This pain is like an intensity (remember?). Now here's where it gets a little tricky: "It is false to say that the masochist is looking for pain but just as false to say that he is looking for pleasure in a particularly roundabout way. The masochist is looking for a type of BwO that only pain can fill, or travel over, due to the very conditions under which that BwO was constituted." (152) This is interesting. For the masochist, pain is a mode in which he/she achieves an a priori synthesis, an indeterminate end, a BwO. The masochist is trying to unlink desire from pleasure (as modern psychoanalysis currently links them). "Pleasure is in no way something that can be attained only by a detour through suffering; it is something that must be delayed as long as possible because it interrrupts the continuous process of positive desire." (155). When a masochist wants to be ridden like a horse, he isn't imitating a horse. He's becoming-animal. He's exchanging instinctual forces in order to replace them with trasmitted forces. (more about horses and forces) everyone needs to get on a program