Perversion : Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis.
Title:
Perversion : Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis.
Author:
Downing, Lisa.
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9781849405324
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
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ENCY
Contents:
COVER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES -- INTRODUCTION: Locating perversion, dislocating psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER ONE: Perversion, perversity, and normality: diagnostic andtherapeutic considerations -- CHAPTER TWO: An overview of perverse behaviour -- CHAPTER THREE: Perversion and charity: an ethical approach -- CHAPTER FOUR: The problem of inscription and its clinical meaningin perversion -- CHAPTER FIVE: The perversion of pain, pleasure, and thought:on the difference between "suffering" an experienceand the "construction" of a thing to be used -- CHAPTER SIX: The structure of perversion: a Lacanian perspective -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Birth, death, orgasm, and perversion: a Reichian view -- PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS -- INTRODUCTION: Perversion, historicity, ethics -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Perversion and French avant-garde art 1912-1916 -- CHAPTER NINE: The perverse domination of the fascist and the Sadean master -- CHAPTER TEN: The feminist ethics of lesbian sadomasochism -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Maternal fetishism -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Lacan meets queer theory -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: On sexual perversion and transsensualism -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment.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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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