Perversions and Near-Perversions in Clinical Practice: New Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048297
• ISBN13: 9780300048292
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.8"