COVER -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: A precursor -- CHAPTER THREE: Problems of terminology and definition -- CHAPTER FOUR: Sadomasochism and depression -- CHAPTER FIVE: Feminine masochism, or the case of the Wolf Man -- CHAPTER SIX: Ascetic masochism -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The clinical area of perversion -- Perversion and perverse-compulsive sexuality -- A very private case history -- A tragic and exemplary tale -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Theories of sadomasochistic perversion -- Psychosexuality -- The first paradigm -- The second paradigm -- The third paradigm -- Robert Stoller's trauma theory -- Some reflections on the biological aspect -- CHAPTER NINE: After the theories -- Infantile sadomasochistic fantasy -- The role of the imagination in perversion -- The sadomasochistic monad and the unity of opposites -- Sexualization in perversion -- The nature of sadomasochistic pleasure -- Cruelty in sadomasochism -- CHAPTER TEN: Areas of contiguity -- Borderline structures and perverse defences -- Perversion and psychosis -- Criminality and perversion -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Infantile trauma and perversion -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Final notes on the three paradigms -- Perversion as an outcome of infantile sexuality -- Continuity of normal and perverse sexuality -- Aggression in perversion -- Recent theories -- Perversion as an act of reparation of the self -- Perversion as a psychopathological organization -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Psychoanalytic therapy of the perversions -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Evil and pleasure: a psychoanalytic view -- Evil -- Pleasure -- Destructiveness -- Irreparable evil -- Regression and psychic destruction -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.