The Triumphant Victim: A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Sadomasochism and Perverse Thinking

ISBN-13: 9780367101152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

J. F. Miller

Opis

Most people have some idea of the meaning of the words sadism and masochism, but for few people does their understanding go beyond rather vague ideas such as inflicting, or enjoying pain. This book examines psychological, defence mechanisms - such as hysteria and projective identification - and looks at their relationship to sado-masochism.

Spis treści

Who This Book is For , Foreword , Introduction: the human context and the developmental imperative , Clinical Issues , Control and helplessness , The core problem: from subversion to perversion , Infantile and adult sexuality , Mothering and the parental couple , Pornography and masturbation: the virtual world , The avoidance of feeling , Projective identification and the claustrum , Sexuality and perversion , Masochism and the emotional orphan , Romantic agony , Hysteria and sadomasochism , Exhibitionism and voyeurism , Social Manifestations , Symbolisation and concrete thinking , Basic tribal assumption thinking and mentality , Perversely religious and religiously perverse , Evangelical atheism , Feminism and the phallic Trojan horse , A child is being murdered , The everlasting baby and the parasite , From victim and blame to a saner society , Case Histories , Abigail: survival through invisibility , Judy and Maria: vendettas against the parent/analyst , Damien: student drop-out and would-be professional psychiatric patient , Kelly: a case of courage in the face of perversity , Mark: the battered husband , Peter and Jim: the black hole of the psyche

O autorze

JF Miller