Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis [NOOK Book]

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Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment. The concept of perversion has also been significant for the disciplines of cultural studies and gender ...
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Overview

Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment. The concept of perversion has also been significant for the disciplines of cultural studies and gender and queer theory, which have explored the creative and dissident powers of perversion, while expressing a suspicion of its operation as a pathological category. This bi-partite collection offers a series of perspectives on perversion by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists (edited by Dany Nobus), and a selection of papers by scholars who work with, or critique, psychoanalytic theories of perversion (edited by Lisa Downing). It stages a serious dialogue between psychoanalysis and its commentators on the controversial issue of non-normative sexuality.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781780495385
  • Publisher: Karnac Books
  • Publication date: 2/3/2011
  • Series: ENCY
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 364
  • Sales rank: 1,054,808
  • File size: 810 KB

Meet the Author

Lisa Downing is a Reader in French Discourses of Sexuality at the School of Modern Languages and Philosophy Programme at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature (2003), Patrice Leconte (2004), and of numerous articles and chapters on the intersection of sexuality and death in imaginative, psychoanalytic, and scientific discourses.

Dany Nobus is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Brunel University, where he directs the M.A. Program in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Creighton University Medical School in Omaha, Nebr. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis (2000) and Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (with Malcolm Quinn) (2005). He is also the editor of Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1997) and Journal for Lacanian Studies.

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Table of Contents

Introduction : locating perversion, dislocating psychoanalysis 3
Ch. 1 Perversion, perversity, and normality : diagnostic and therapeutic considerations 19
Ch. 2 An overview of perverse behaviour 39
Ch. 3 Perversion and charity : an ethical approach 59
Ch. 4 The problem of inscription and its clinical meaning in perversion 79
Ch. 5 The perversion of pain, pleasure, and thought : on the difference between "suffering" an experience and the "construction" of a thing to be used 99
Ch. 6 The structure of perversion : a Lacanian perspective 109
Ch. 7 Birth, death, orgasm, and perversion : a Reichian view 127
Introduction : perversion, historicity, ethics 149
Ch. 8 Perversion and French avant-garde art 1912-1916 165
Ch. 9 The perverse domination of the fascist and the Sadean master 187
Ch. 10 The feminist ethics of lesbian sadomasochism 217
Ch. 11 Maternal fetishism 241
Ch. 12 Lacan meets queer theory 261
Ch. 13 On sexual perversion and transsensualism 323
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