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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459241603321

Autore

J. Stoller Robert

Titolo

Perversion : the erotic form of hatred / / by Robert J. Stoller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©1986

ISBN

0-429-90298-0

0-429-47821-6

1-282-90021-8

9786612900211

1-84940-040-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Maresfield library

Disciplina

157.7

616.8583

Soggetti

Paraphilias

Hostility (Psychology)

Mother and child

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Definition -- pt. 2. Dynamics : trauma, hostility, risk and revenge -- pt. 3. Social issues.

Sommario/riassunto

'Why in this enlightened day would one choose to entitle a work Perversion, a term that is becoming passe? The great research published in the last decade or two has taught us that aberrant sexual behavior is found in other species, is ubiquitous in man, and is the product of brain and hormonal factors that can function independently of anything we might call psyche. Then too, their findings make researchers regret society's moral stance that sexual aberration is unnatural - sinful - and the repressive social action that follows. Thus, in ridding ourselves of the concept of perversion, we have the tempting combination of good research serving a humane cause. Yet it isthe author'scontention, explored in the body of this book, that perversion exists. The connotations of the word are unpleasant and have a flavor



of morality and therefore of free will that is antiquated in these days of science and determinism. It is to avoid such connotations that the softer terms "variant", "deviation," or "aberration" are used.