| While putting aside his striving for strength, pride and dignity, the masochist abandons himself completely. |
| The moral masochist denies his need of humiliations, and explains his suffering as purely accidental. |
| The masochist thinks that a declaration of weakness will divert punishment but, in reality, it usually has the opposite effect. |
| By ordering his own punishment the masochist has made himself the master of his destiny. |
| Many forces conspire to keep the masochist in his place, but two are paramount: fear and guilt. |
| We observe that the masochist has constantly to provoke the object in order to project his own aggression on to him. |
