Structure and perversions / Joël Dor ; translated by Susan Fairfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dor, Joël.

Series:

Lacanian clinical field

The Lacanian clinical field

Standardized Title:

Structure et perversions. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychology, Pathological.

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Sexual and Gender Disorders--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalytic Therapy.

Sexual and Gender Disorders--therapy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, 2001.

Summary:

In this volume, Jokl Dors practiced command of psychoanalytic theory and rigorous expository style are brought to bear on a concept which has long been a subject of fascination and misapprehension: perversion.In Dors account, perversion is something that applies to each of us, at least when it comes to the structural dynamics of desire that it reveals. Clearing away the surrounding ideological clutter, Dor explains perversion in structural terms that go beyond the occurrence of a psychopathological scenario and brings us closer, through compelling clinical tales, to a profound understanding of the concept of psychic structure.

Contents:

The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview

Structure. Structural Traits. Diagnostic Assessment

The Notion of Diagnostic Assessment in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Symptom and Diagnosis

The Distinction between Symptoms and Structural Traits. Illustration in a Case of Hysteria

The Notion of Structure in Psychopathology

Psychic Structures and the Phallic Function

The Structural Logic of the Perverse Process

The Classical Conception of the Perversions

The Notion of Drive in the Perverse Process

Disavowal of Reality, Disavowal of Castration, and Splitting of the Ego

Phallic Identification and Perverse Identification

The Anchoring Point of the Perversions and the Actualization of the Perverse Process

The Horror of Castration and the Relation to Women. Defiance and Transgression

Clinical Example: Parental Ambiguity as Initiating the Perverse Process and the Horror of Castration

The Relation to Women. Defiance. Transgression. Differential Diagnosis of the Perversions, Obsessional Neurosis, and Hysteria

Perverse Jouissance and the Complicit Third Party. Secrecy and Action

On the Borders of the Perversions

Structural Proximity of the Psychoses and the Perversions

Sexuation, Sexual Identity, and Vicissitudes of Phallic Attribution

Transsexualism and the Sex of Angels

Conclusion: Perversion and Perverse Women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-204) and index.

ISBN:

1892746379

9781892746375

OCLC:

47289299