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The world of perversion : psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire / James Penney.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penney, James, 1971-
- Series:
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Paraphilias.
- Desire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.
- Contents:
- Part I: Epistemologies of perversion
- Perversity and perversion
- Perversion as power
- Perversion as structure
- Fetishism, sexual difference, homosexuality
- Worlds of perversion : a reader's guide
- Part II: Confessions of a medieval sodomite
- Meet Gilles de Rais
- The spectacle of perversion
- The tragedy of history
- An innocent transference
- Radically evil?
- The perverse sacrifice
- Part III: Cleopatra's nose
- Pascal's modernity
- The tragic absolute
- From sin to infinity
- Ideological state automatons
- A distracted dialectic
- Grace, or the act of faith
- Part IV: This whole world of perversion
- Dialogue and dialectic
- The cynical other
- A revolt against the negative
- Wealth and power
- Hysterical pantomime
- The beyond of perversion
- Part V: The guardian of criminal being
- Lacan contra Hegel
- Ethical beauty
- The real of destiny
- Pleasure unbound
- Suffering for beauty
- Artfully screwed
- Part VI: Concluding (un)queer-theoretical postscript
- Perversion and its discontents
- A dynamic perversion
- The minoritarian temptation
- Hysteria in the shadow of the state
- The paradox of desublimation
- The subject of sex.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791481677
- 0791481670
- 9781429417358
- 1429417358
- OCLC:
- 77116344
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