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As strange as it may seem, Adorno and Horkheimer on the one hand and Lacan on the other took an interest in the way Kantian philosophy and Sade’s work can be related. Rejecting a mere libertarian conception of this link, which would be far too simplistic since it consists of seeing the “Divine Marquis” as the hidden face of the Königsberg philosopher, Slavoj Žižek discusses here the tension between these two systems and reverses the traditional expectations in order to look for the Kantian way of desire—being, in that sense, faithful to Lacan’s reading—against the totalitarian nature of Sade’s pleasure.