Perversion Now! /

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of perversion , which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues,...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Caine, Diana; Wright, Colin
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47271-3
Summary: This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of perversion , which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between transgression and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of perversion as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the i
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIX, 283 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319472713
Index Number: HM1001
CLC: B848
Contents: PART I. Clinical Reflections from Freud to Lacan -- Chapter 1. Pervert, the Professor ?; Xavier Fourtou -- Chapter 2. Exploring Transgression from a Lacanian Perspective; Astrid Gessert -- Chapter 3. Perversion Now; Anne Worthington -- Chapter 4. From the Hierarchy of Desires to the Equivalence of Jouissances ; Patrick Landman -- Chapter 5. Perversion and Perversity in Contemporary Love; Gorana Bulat-Manenti -- PART II. Symptom or Structure: A Dichotomy? -- Chapter 6. Perversion Since Freud?; H l ne Godefroy; Chapter 7. Some Remarks on the Idea of Ordinary Perversion; Roland Chemama -- Chapt