What are Perversions? - Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Karnac Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Sergio Benvenuto
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	170
ISBN-13:	978-1-78220-327-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	1-78220-327-3
Barcode:	9781782203278

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