In the same pattern the exhibitionist may make the neurotic into a voyeur. Drive partakes of the analytic relation, which is an erotic relation. The split is thereby transposed onto the other, the victim. The discourse being the same, the analyst emerges from the patient's split, but the analyst is not a sadist since he keeps the objet a empty. Stuart Schneiderman emphasizes Gilles de Rais getting a kind of blessing not only from his fellow men, but from the very parents of the victims.
Perverse logic is phallic logic.
Between being and having, yet from the side of being, artifice tricks the subject to the point of misrecognition on the part of its own desire as desire of the Other. The subject's paradox, its alternating current over the object's absence, regains possible worlds through fiction, the myth of creativity, in the figure of Bluebeard. Feminine perversion has its controversial side. Renata Salecl's 4 article discusses feminine psychosis as it may be produced by default or by reflection. Authors in this issue write the theory from different points of view.