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The Age of Perversion - Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover)
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The Age of Perversion - Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
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American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for
2018 (Theoretical Category) We have entered the age of perversion,
an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more
like us.The Age of Perversion explores the sea changes occurring in
sexual and social life, made possible by the ongoing technological
revolution, and demonstrates how psychoanalysts can understand and
work with manifestations of perversion in clinical settings. Until
now theories of perversion have limited their scope of inquiry to
sexual behavior and personal trauma. The authors of this book widen
that inquiry to include the social and political sphere, tracing
perversion's existential roots to the human experience of being a
conscious animal troubled by the knowledge of death. Offering both
creative and destructive possibilities, perversion challenges
boundaries and norms in every area of life and involves
transgression, illusion casting, objectification, dehumanization,
and the radical quest for transcendence. This volume presents
several clinical cases, including a man who lived with and loved a
sex doll, a woman who wanted to be a Barbie doll, and an Internet
sex addict. Also examined are cases of widespread social perversion
in corporations, the mental health care industry, and even the
government. In considering the continued impact of technology, the
authors discuss how it is changing the practice of psychotherapy.
They speculate about what the future may hold for a species who
will redefine what it means to be human more in the next few
decades than during any other time in human history. The Age of
Perversion provides a novel examination of the convergence of
perversion and technology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, mental health
counselors, sex therapists, sexologists, roboticists, and
futurists, as well as social theorists and students and scholars of
cultural studies.
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