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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816483503321

Autore

Swales Stephanie S.

Titolo

Perversion : a Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the subject / / Stephanie S. Swales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-87442-2

9786613715739

1-136-32997-8

1-136-32996-X

0-203-12186-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Classificazione

PSY026000PSY036000

Disciplina

616.85/83

Soggetti

Psychosexual disorders

Sexual desire disorders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PERVERSION: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theoretical and Case Study Contributions; 2 Button Ties of Lacanian Theory: The Paternal Metaphor, Subjectivity, and the Remainder; 3 The Etiology of Perversion; 4 Perverse Relation to the Other: Fundamental Fantasy, Language, and the Drives; 5 The Perverse Act and Substructures of Perversion; 6 Analysis of a Case of (Perverse) Exhibitionism; 7 Analysis of a Case of Obsessive Neurosis and Pedophilic Sexual Interest

8 Treatment Recommendations for Clinical Work with Neurotic and Perverse PatientsReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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 <EM>Perversion</EM>, 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.<EM>Perversion </EM>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"--