This paper argues that masochism is a panpsychic vertebra in the semiotic chain. Superventially and ontogenetically, it is a fact of the libidinal population of the unconscious, yet behavioural, and hence a form of inner animism relating to a newly proposed concept, totemic signification, in which symbolic proscription traduces (i.e., vicariously lances or skewers) the ego. Masochism evinces its raiments and slander provided loss of behavioural sets of problematization and perplexity, a fact of paradoxicality which is tantamount to castration of the significand and which introduces humiliation of the father-image, the scar of opprobrium, the patronage of the blood rite, etc. Consequently its primordial symbolic function is Phallic disidentification and disavowal—a mechanism short of castration—and thusly its indulgence becomes the endogamous attempt to give birth (i.e., the conflation of Phallic and Genital), and becoming rightly connoted like behavioural lustration it reinforces the act of abomination. Then, masochism is de-rendered into its aggressive or aphoristic forms of territorialization and situated in relation to Deleuzian and Guattarian desire. Finally masochism is related necessarily to L'objet fou, a conceptual apparatus subserving its transient objectification and concomitant superegoization, which for masochism structures infantile subversion intending the disabuse of routinization of debasement.