What are Perversions?

<p>This book explores what we mean when we use the term perversion. Are we dealing with a sexological classification a mental disturbance an ethical deviation a hedonistic style or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan Stoller and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that paraphilias today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other who is treated not simply as a sexual object but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts if considered perverse are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma above all sexual in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy. </p>