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Perversion and Contemporaneity: A Mistaken Discourse?
| Summary: | The aim of this study was to examine the psychoanalytic production on perversion in the last decades, focusing on the relations the authors establish between perversion and contemporaneity. To carry out this research, we consulted psychoanalytic papers indexed by the American Psychology Association (PsycInfo/APA), papers of psychoanalytic journals, and chapters of books whose topic is perversion, but at its intersection with contemporaneity. To analyse the material found, thematic categories were created: “perversion and current pathologies”, “perverse social bonds”, and “perversionization or obsessionization?”. Through this research, we realized that perversion is a very frequent topic in the current psychoanalysis discourse; however, often this term and its derivative, “perverse”, are used indiscriminately to denounce everything that is immoral and evil in the society. This way, there is a risk of trivializing perversion, escaping from its original psychoanalytic sense. |
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| Main Authors: | Neto, Gustavo Adolfo Ramos Mello |
| Other Authors: | Schmitt, Lara Stresser |
| Subject: | psychoanalysis culture perversion society sexuality psicoanálisis cultura perversión sociedad sexualidad psicanálise cultura perversão sociedade sexualidade |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | IBICT |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Oasisbr |
| Summary: | The aim of this study was to examine the psychoanalytic production on perversion in the last decades, focusing on the relations the authors establish between perversion and contemporaneity. To carry out this research, we consulted psychoanalytic papers indexed by the American Psychology Association (PsycInfo/APA), papers of psychoanalytic journals, and chapters of books whose topic is perversion, but at its intersection with contemporaneity. To analyse the material found, thematic categories were created: “perversion and current pathologies”, “perverse social bonds”, and “perversionization or obsessionization?”. Through this research, we realized that perversion is a very frequent topic in the current psychoanalysis discourse; however, often this term and its derivative, “perverse”, are used indiscriminately to denounce everything that is immoral and evil in the society. This way, there is a risk of trivializing perversion, escaping from its original psychoanalytic sense. |
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