Perversion Psychoanalytic Perspectives

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3 PARTI: PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES 1
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INTRODUCTION
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Locating perversion, dislocating psychoanalysis 3
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Dany Nobus
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Perversion, perversity, and normality: diagnostic and
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Perversion and charity: an ethical approach 59
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2 The problem of inscription and its clinical meaning
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4 André Michels
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7 The perversion of pain, pleasure, and thought:
8 on the difference between “suffering” an experience
9 and the “construction” of a thing to be used 99
10 Nicola Abel-Hirsch
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3 The structure of perversion: a Lacanian perspective 109
4 Serge André
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Birth, death, orgasm, and perversion: a Reichian view 127
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6 Perversion and French avant-garde art 1912–1916 165
7 Claire Pajaczkowska
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311 The perverse domination of the fascist and the Sadean master 187
1 Antonios Vadolas
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4 The feminist ethics of lesbian sadomasochism 217
5 Mandy Merck
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8 Maternal fetishism 241
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211 “Perversion, perversity, and normality: diagnostic and therapeutic
1 considerations”, by Otto F. Kernberg, was originally published in
2 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 1997, 14(1): 19–40. Aslightly modi-
3 fied version appeared in Otto F. Kernberg, Aggressivity, Narcissism,
4 and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship: New
5 Developments in the Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Severe
6 Personality Disorders (Yale University Press, 2004). The text is re-
7 printed here with the kind permission of the author.
8 “Perversion and charity: an ethical approach”, by Sergio
9 Benvenuto, is a revised version of a text that originally appeared as
30 “On perversions” in Journal for Lacanian Studies, 2003, 1(2), 243–260.
1 “The problem of inscription and its clinical meaning in perver-
2 sion”, by André Michels, originally appeared as “Die Problematik
3 der Einschreibung und ihre klinische Bedeutung, unter besonderer
4 Berücksichtigung der Perversionen” in Texte, 1996, 53–71, and was
5 translated by Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing for this volume, with
6 the kind permission of the author.
7 “The structure of perversion: a Lacanian perspective”, by Serge
8 André, is the translated transcription of a lecture entitled “La struc-
911 ture de la perversion” presented at the University of Ghent
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