Perversion : The Erotic Form of Hatred

ISBN-13: 9780946439201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 256 str.

Robert J. Stoller

Opis

The main contention is that in perversion the main clinical factor is hostility. It combines with sexual desire to produce the various forms that perversion can take on. Stoller shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity. Risk, vengeance and trauma are some of the ideas that the author discusses while building up his argument

Spis treści

Introduction -- Definition -- Definitions -- Impact of New Advances in Sex Research on Psychoanalytic Theory -- Variants: Aberrations That Are Not Perversions -- Perversions: Aberrations That Are Not Variants -- Dynamics: Trauma, Hostility, Risk, and Revenge -- Pornography and Perversion -- Hostility and Mystery in Perversion -- Perversion: Risk versus Boredom -- Symbiosis Anxiety and the Development of Masculinity -- A Crime as a Sexual Act -- Social Issues -- Is Homosexuality a Diagnosis? -- Sex as Sin -- The Necessity of Perversion

O autorze

J. Stoller, Robert