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Autore: |
Penney James <1971->
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Titolo: |
The world of perversion [[electronic resource] ] : psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire / / James Penney
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Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
Disciplina: | 150.19/5 |
Soggetto topico: | Psychoanalysis |
Paraphilias | |
Desire | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Part I: Epistemologies of perversion -- Perversity and perversion -- Perversion as power -- Perversion as structure -- Fetishism, sexual difference, homosexuality -- Worlds of perversion : a reader's guide -- Part II: Confessions of a medieval sodomite -- Meet Gilles de Rais -- The spectacle of perversion -- The tragedy of history -- An innocent transference -- Radically evil? -- The perverse sacrifice -- Part III: Cleopatra's nose -- Pascal's modernity -- The tragic absolute -- From sin to infinity -- Ideological state automatons -- A distracted dialectic -- Grace, or the act of faith -- Part IV: This whole world of perversion -- Dialogue and dialectic -- The cynical other -- A revolt against the negative -- Wealth and power -- Hysterical pantomime -- The beyond of perversion -- Part V: The guardian of criminal being -- Lacan contra Hegel -- Ethical beauty -- The real of destiny -- Pleasure unbound -- Suffering for beauty -- Artfully screwed -- Part VI: Concluding (un)queer-theoretical postscript -- Perversion and its discontents -- A dynamic perversion -- The minoritarian temptation -- Hysteria in the shadow of the state -- The paradox of desublimation -- The subject of sex. |
Sommario/riassunto: | An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The world of perversion ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-7914-8167-0 |
1-4294-1735-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827868203321 |
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