Perversion : Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis / Lisa Downing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downing, Lisa, author.

Contributor:

Nobus, Dany.

Downing, Lisa.

Series:

ENCY

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paraphilias.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment.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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Locating perversion, dislocating psychoanalysis / Dany Nobus

Perversion, perversity, and normality : diagnostic and therapeutic considerations / Otto F. Kernberg

An overview of perverse behaviour / Arnold Goldberg

Perversion and charity: an ethical approach / Sergio Benvenuto

The problem of inscription and its clinical meaning in perversion / André Michels

The perversion of pain, pleasure, and thought: on the difference between "suffering" an experience and the "construction" of a thing to be used / Nicola Abel-Hirsch

The structure of perversion: a Lacanian perspective / Serge André

Birth, death, orgasm, and perversion: a Reichian view / Nick Totton

Perversion, historicity, ethics / Lisa Downing

Perversion and French avant-garde art 1912-1916 / Claire Pajaczkowska

The perverse domination of the fascist and the Sadean master / Antonios Vadolas

The feminist ethics of lesbian sadomasochism / Mandy Merck

Maternal fetishism / Emily Apter

Lacan meets queer theory / Tim Dean

On sexual perversion and transsensualism / Vernon A. Rosario.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-90300-6

0-429-47823-2

1-283-24947-2

9786613249470

1-84940-532-8

9780429478239

OCLC:

748242076