The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis And the Impossible Absolute of Desire

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An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Author(s): James Penney
Series: Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 266

The World of Perversion......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Perversity and Perversion......Page 14
Perversion as Power......Page 15
Perversion as Structure......Page 23
Fetishism, Sexual Difference, Homosexuality......Page 34
Worlds of Perversion: A Reader’s Guide......Page 41
Meet Gilles de Rais......Page 48
The Spectacle of Perversion......Page 50
The Tragedy of History......Page 55
An Innocent Transference......Page 63
Radically Evil?......Page 67
The Perverse Sacrifice......Page 72
Pascal’s Modernity......Page 82
The Tragic Absolute......Page 88
From Sin to Infinity......Page 92
Ideological State Automatons......Page 100
A Distracted Dialectic......Page 106
Grace, or the Act of Faith......Page 111
Dialogue and Dialectic......Page 116
The Cynical Other......Page 121
A Revolt against the Negative......Page 126
Wealth and Power......Page 130
Hysterical Pantomime......Page 136
The Beyond of Perversion......Page 143
Lacan contra Hegel......Page 152
Ethical Beauty......Page 156
The Real of Destiny......Page 161
Pleasure Unbound......Page 166
Suffering for Beauty......Page 170
Artfully Screwed......Page 177
Perversion and Its Discontents......Page 186
A Dynamic Perversion......Page 188
The Minoritarian Temptation......Page 197
Hysteria in the Shadow of the State......Page 203
The Paradox of Desublimation......Page 214
The Subject of Sex......Page 223
Notes......Page 234
C......Page 254
F......Page 255
H......Page 256
L......Page 257
P......Page 258
S......Page 259
Z......Page 260