1st Edition
What are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis
By Sergio Benvenuto
Copyright 2016
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that... Read more
Introduction , What are perversions? , The pervert’s pain , Masochism: ways to power , Sadism: Punishing women , Perverse women , Weaning from perversion? , Freud and masochism
Biography
Sergio Benvenuto
