{"product_id":"what-are-perversions-sexuality-ethics-psychoanalysis-9780367103637","title":"What Are Perversions?: Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sergio Benvenuto\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science - Human Sexuality)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores what we mean when we use the term \"perversion.\" Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that \"paraphilias\" today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other, who is treated not simply as a sexual object, but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts, if considered perverse, are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma, above all sexual, in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47836197159063,"sku":"9780367103637","price":12037.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367103637.webp?v=1779268942","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-are-perversions-sexuality-ethics-psychoanalysis-9780367103637","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}