| What Are Perversions?: Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis Contributor(s): Benvenuto, Sergio (Author) |
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ISBN: 036710363X ISBN-13: 9780367103637 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 155.3 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores what we mean when we use the term perversion. 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 paraphilias 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Benvenuto, Sergio: - Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst in Rome, president of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis (ISAP), and a scientific researcher in the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition at the Italian Council for Scientific Research (CNR) in Rome. He is professor meritus in Psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Psychology of Depth/University of Nice in Kiev. He is also the founder and editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, published both online and in print. |