What are Perversions? (eBook)

Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis

Sergio Benvenuto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
210 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-0-429-92378-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "e;perversion."e; Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that "e;paraphilias"e; today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other, who is treated not simply as a sexual object, but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts, if considered perverse, are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma, above all sexual, in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-429-92378-3 / 0429923783
• ISBN-13: 978-0-429-92378-4 / 9780429923784