Perversions and Near-perversions in Clinical Practice
Author | : Gerald I. Fogel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1991 |
ISBN-10 | : 0300048297 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780300048292 |
Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The traditional psychoanalytical definition of perversion stresses deviant behaviour, including such categories as transvestism, fetishism, sexual sado-masochism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, paedophilia, and bestiality. However, as Freud noted, there are polymorphous perverse elements in everyone's sexual fantasies and behaviours, and the line between normality and abnormality is difficult to draw. In this book prominent psychoanalysts present the latest psychoanalytic perpectives on the perverse, expanding the definition to behaviours that are not overtly sexual and at the same time defining perversion more specifically.