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World of Perversion

Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose-and indeed everything to gain-by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to perversion and those inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, Penney explores how different assumptions about sexuality have determined the development of contemporary queer theory, and how the universalizing approach to homosexuality in psychoanalysis actually leads to more useful political strategies for nonheterosexual subjects. Having established this theoretical context, Penney focuses on works by Georges Bataille, Blaise Pascal, Denis Diderot, and Jacques Lacan, tracing the implications of various sexual and moral understandings of the term perversion, and illustrating how a psychoanalytic approach to the question of perversion enables politicized readings that are foreclosed by a Foucauldian methodology.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-07-03
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Antal sidor259
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791467695

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Acknowledgments 1. Epistemologies of Perversion Perversity and Perversion Perversion as Power Perversion as Structure Fetishism, Sexual Difference, Homosexuality Worlds of Perversion: A Reader’s Guide 2. Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite Meet Gilles de Rais The Spectacle of Perversion The Tragedy of History An Innocent Transference Radically Evil? The Perverse Sacrifice 3. Cleopatra’s Nose Pascal's ModernityThe Tragic Absolute From Sin to InfinityIdeological State Automatons A Distracted Dialectic Grace, or the Act of Faith 4. This Whole World of Perversion Dialogue and Dialectic The Cynical Other A Revolt against the Negative Wealth and Power Hysterical Pantomime The Beyond of Perversion 5. The Guardian of Criminal Being Lacan contra Hegel Ethical Beauty The Real of Destiny Pleasure Unbound Suffering for Beauty Artfully Screwed 6. Concluding (Un)Queer-Theoretical Postscript Perversion and Its Discontents A Dynamic Perversion The Minoritarian Temptation Hysteria in the Shadow of the State The Paradox of Desublimation The Subject of Sex Notes Index