The infamous novel by the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895) "Venus in Furs" is famous not so much for its literary merits as for the name of the author, from whom the sexopathological practice of masochism got its name. The psychological and philosophical meaning of this phenomenon is revealed in the study of the modern French thinker Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) "Presentation of Sacher-Masoch," as well as in the works of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), whose Russian translation is first published in this edition. The book is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of modern culture.