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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825429803321

Autore

Ross Fiona

Titolo

Perversion : a Jungian approach / / by Fiona Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2013

ISBN

0-429-90299-9

0-429-47822-4

1-78241-051-1

1-283-95167-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

150.1954

Soggetti

Psychosexual disorders

Jungian psychology

Paraphilias

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

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Dedication Page; Chapter One - Setting the Scene; Chapter Two - Rationale for the Structure of the Book; Chapter Three - The Length and Breadth of the Concept of Perversion; Chapter Four - From Perversion to Perverse Structure; Chapter Five - Relationship between the Perverse Structure and Non-Sexual Perversion; Chapter Six - A Jungian Perspective; Chapter Seven - Formulation Including a Jungian Persepective; Chapter Eight - Perversion: Present and Future; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Theoretical understanding of perversion is neglected in analytical psychology, and narrowly developed in psychoanalysis, where it traditionally refers to sexual perversion. Etymological exploration of the word "perversion", including its use in religious, moral, sociological and legal contexts, reveals a wider meaning than that adopted in psychoanalysis. The aim of the author is to revise the psychoanalytic model through the introduction of Jungian concepts that extend the understanding of perversion beyond the bounds of sexuality to a more general relational context. By describing the development of



psychoanalytic thinking on perversion in detail, the author is able to highlight the central differences between the Freudian and Jungian interpretive traditions and to explain why Jungian ideas on perversion have remained underdeveloped, leading to the absence of a unique or available Jungian contribution to the theory of perversion.