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Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not
the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or
transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural
position in relation to the Other. Perversion is one of Lacan's
three main ontological diagnostic structures, structures that
indicate fundamentally different ways of solving the problems of
alienation, separation from the primary caregiver, and castration,
or having limits set by the law on one's jouissance. The perverse
subject has undergone alienation but disavowed castration,
suffering from excessive jouissance and a core belief that the law
and social norms are fraudulent at worst and weak at best. In
Perversion, Stephanie Swales provides a close reading (a
qualitative hermeneutic reading) of what Lacan said about
perversion and its substructures (i.e., fetishism, voyeurism,
exhibitionism, sadism, and masochism). Lacanian theory is carefully
explained in accessible language, and perversion is elucidated in
terms of its etiology, characteristics, symptoms, and fundamental
fantasy. Referring to sex offenders as a sample, she offers
clinicians a guide to making differential diagnoses between
psychotic, neurotic, and perverse patients, and provides a
treatment model for working with perversion versus neurosis. Two
detailed qualitative clinical case studies are presented-one of a
neurotic sex offender and the other of a perverse sex
offender-highlighting crucial differences in the transference
relation and subsequent treatment recommendations for both forensic
and private practice contexts. Perversion offers a fresh
psychoanalytic approach to the subject and will be of great
interest to scholars and clinicians in the fields of
psychoanalysis, psychology, forensic science, cultural studies, and
philosophy.
Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not
the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or
transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural
position in relation to the Other. Perversion is one of Lacan's
three main ontological diagnostic structures, structures that
indicate fundamentally different ways of solving the problems of
alienation, separation from the primary caregiver, and castration,
or having limits set by the law on one's jouissance. The perverse
subject has undergone alienation but disavowed castration,
suffering from excessive jouissance and a core belief that the law
and social norms are fraudulent at worst and weak at best. In
Perversion, Stephanie Swales provides a close reading (a
qualitative hermeneutic reading) of what Lacan said about
perversion and its substructures (i.e., fetishism, voyeurism,
exhibitionism, sadism, and masochism). Lacanian theory is carefully
explained in accessible language, and perversion is elucidated in
terms of its etiology, characteristics, symptoms, and fundamental
fantasy. Referring to sex offenders as a sample, she offers
clinicians a guide to making differential diagnoses between
psychotic, neurotic, and perverse patients, and provides a
treatment model for working with perversion versus neurosis. Two
detailed qualitative clinical case studies are presented-one of a
neurotic sex offender and the other of a perverse sex
offender-highlighting crucial differences in the transference
relation and subsequent treatment recommendations for both forensic
and private practice contexts. Perversion offers a fresh
psychoanalytic approach to the subject and will be of great
interest to scholars and clinicians in the fields of
psychoanalysis, psychology, forensic science, cultural studies, and
philosophy.
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