Back to AtD. Cyprian and his unconscious self-overcoming?

[Mark Kohut]

Cyprian is a self-absorbed kinda guy when we meet him in AtD. Seemingly superficial.
His "gay" character seems masochistic-based, yes, that being beaten stuff? (Another of TRP's metaphoric use of
homosexuality/bisexuality---as a putdown? as not a mature sexual being, in some sense? As....?).....
 
Then we have his trip with Danilo. Brutal physically, long and difficult,  full of necessary self-denial (to
simply survive) and some kind of soul-cleansing, soul-changing?  
 
Nietzsche speaks of the difficulty of self-overcoming but there are other perspectives too. Jungians?---And I was reminded of one of his aphorisms
which went something like: chastity and sensuality are not mutually exclusive, which may be 
at least partly where Cyprian ends up? TRP clearly states that he goes beyond sex in some way when
he has an orgasm without it, just from self-abnegation, losing his superficial ego in helping Danilo? (Buddhist-
like too is another way to approach it?) 
 
Is Cyprian's early masochism transmogrified into non-sexual service to others? Is doing such Good related
to masochsim---or is that now overcome? (might be since with Yashmeen now it is different)
 
And/or is he now iable to love Yashmeen because his homosexuality has been worked off, so to speak?