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Perversion: an 'outdated' concept, desperately and perpetually needed.(Essay)(Column)
FACED with the bad news from Abu Ghraib, we find ourselves reaching for old and distrusted concepts. Sexual humiliation, administered by women to men who have been stripped and bound, is tainted, we think, by perversion--indeed, it is a form of perversion. And then, having given voice to this idea, we find ourselves in forbidden territory. Owing to political correctness, nothing that adults do in private is now to be regarded as intrinsically disgusting. The idea that one person's action may be a violation and desecration of another person's body, even if the other consents to it, has almost slipped from our consciousness.
Almost, but not quite. For even the most ...
- Nascent normalization of perversion.(Commentary)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Roberts, Paul Craig March 5, 1997 700+ words
...next item on the chain of perversion to the forefront: incest...parties are of the age of consent. Random House is about to...process of normalizing sexual perversion, we are going to find it...or two women? Why is one perversion and the other not? If homosexuality...
- Peripatetic perversions: a neo-Aristotelian account of the nature of sexual...
- Magazine article from: The Monist Baltzly, Dirk January 1, 2003 700+ words
...relevant concept of sexual perversions has been increasingly...the notion of sexual perversion: those of Graham Priest...something counts as a perversion or not makes it unsurprising...really are any sexual perversions. 1. The eudaimonist...successful account of sexual perversion ...
- Perversion (Metapsychological Approach)
- Dictionary definition from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis De Oliveira, Luiz January 1, 2005 700+ words
...if, in short, a perversion has the characteristics...apart again in the perversions" (1905d, pp. 161...s interest in the perversions. The first relates...in fact the only two perversions in which he seems to...interest in masochism as a perversion in the 1919 article...
- The Problem of Perversion--The View from Self Psychology
- Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy Glickauf-Hughes, Cheryl July 1, 1996 700+ words
...mirroring selfobject, gives the perversion its particular form and content...discusses three categories of perversions. These include: (1) dehumanization...between the rage manifested in perversion and healthy aggression in...Goldberg believes that in such perversions, both sexuality and rage...
- Perversion as diversion: the female gaze in the novels of Rachilde.
- Magazine article from: West Virginia University Philological Papers Richards, Sylvie L.F. September 22, 2001 700+ words
...characteristic . . . : in these perversions the sexual aim occurs in...symptoms in order to negate a perversion. "Thus," says Freud...to say, the negative of perversions" (165). Based on these...together the act of gazing and perversion, few writers have focused...
- 'Perversions' falls short of pretensions.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James May 9, 1997 700+ words
"Female Perversions." Rated R. At the Kendall Square...grabbing title of the film "Female Perversions" turns out to be ironic. It's...like that, you'd think "Female Perversions" would be hard to dismiss. Produced...
- Perversion
- Dictionary definition from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis McDougall, Joyce January 1, 2005 700+ words
PERVERSION To posit a "perverse...that "the disposition to perversions is itself of no great rarity...neurosis is the negative of perversion" (pp. 165, 231...the father in cases of perversion, and at the same time...
- Perversion and death.
- Magazine article from: The Monist de Sousa, Ronald January 1, 2003 700+ words
...succeeds in vindicating a concept of perversion. Rather, it throws into relief both...absurdity of countenancing any notion of perversion. ********** This is a special...wrong attitude merit being called a perversion? The OED defines `perversion' first...
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