"... since it stands as if the only way of showing “becoming-animal”. Above all, according to Deleuze, masochist does not “imitate a horse”; but he becomes a horse (ATP 155). Thus, Deleuze seems to study on masochism in order to see whether BwO and “becoming-animal” work in practice or not. The body is the focal point in masochism. Deleuze starts with inscribing “the masochist body” (see ATP 150) in this context. Additionally, “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”...
Burcu Canar
(in http://lingua.amu.edu.pl/Lingua_21/LIN-3.pdf)