World Perversion Psychoanalysis Impossible by Penney James (3 results)

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Condition: very good. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2006. Hardcover. xii, 247 pp. (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) Contents : Part I: Epistemologies of perversion -- Perversity and perversion -- Perversion as power -- Perversion as structure -- Fetishism, sexual difference, homosexuality -- Worlds of perversion : a reader's guide -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: Cleopatra's nose -- Pascal's modernity -- The tragic absolute -- From sin to infinity -- Ideological state automatons -- A distracted dialectic -- Grace, or the act of faith -- Part IV: 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 -- Part V: The guardian of criminal being -- Lacan contra Hegel -- Ethical beauty -- The real of destiny -- Pleasure unbound -- Suffering for beauty -- Artfully screwed -- Part VI: 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. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780791467695. Keywords : PSYCHOLOGY,