The world of perversion
Subtitle: psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire
By: James Penney.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Sexual deviation; Desire
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Epistemologies of perversion; title: Perversity and perversion; title: Perversion as power; title: Perversion as structure; title: Fetishism, sexual difference, homosexuality; title: Worlds of perversion : a reader's guide; title: Part II: Confessions of a medieval sodomite; title: Meet Gilles de Rais; title: The spectacle of perversion; title: The tragedy of history; title: An innocent transference; title: Radically evil?; title: The perverse sacrifice; title: Part III: Cleopatra's nose; title: Pascal's modernity; title: The tragic absolute; title: From sin to infinity; title: Ideological state automatons; title: A distracted dialectic; title: Grace, or the act of faith; title: Part IV: This whole world of perversion; title: Dialogue and dialectic; title: The cynical other; title: A revolt against the negative; title: Wealth and power; title: Hysterical pantomime; title: The beyond of perversion; title: Part V: The guardian of criminal being; title: Lacan contra Hegel; title: Ethical beauty; title: The real of destiny; title: Pleasure unbound; title: Suffering for beauty; title: Artfully screwed; title: Part VI: Concluding (un)queer-theoretical postscript; title: Perversion and its discontents; title: A dynamic perversion; title: The minoritarian temptation; title: Hysteria in the shadow of the state; title: The paradox of desublimation; title: The subject of sex.