»Philip Roth, in works of tremendous creativity and dazzling humour, presents heroes in the grip of psychopathological problems that hamper their love lives in a singular way : their desire is often marked by straying, inconstancy and even inconsistency, and their sexuality by an insatiable need for sensual contact. The metaphorical tale The breast (1972), which belongs to the tradition of metamorphosis, leads one to reflect, through the transformation of David Kapesh into a breast, upon the fantasy (or perversion), taboo but frequent, of experiencing unlimited and constantly renewed sexual enjoyment. In The dying Animal (2004), the same hero manages, after a profound psychical reorganisation, to abandon his cherished unconditional freedom and his constant search for erotic pleasure ; he achieves a real love relationship where the Other can really be loved, both sexually and affectively.»
Archives par mot-clé : Perversion
BRIENT PIERRICK : THE DISAVOWAL OF THE FEMALE IN THE ABBOT DE CHOISY
»Adolescence is a privileged time for the revelation of perverse organisation. We propose to illustrate it using the Memoirs of the Abbot de Choisy dressed as a woman « (1687-1695), that J. Lacan invited us to read. Articulated with the maternal imaginary, the transvestite practice of Choisy attests to a denial of castration and to the identification of the subject to the phallus. Through the maintenance of a phallicisation of the penis, where the fetish dominates, the puberty innovation is disavowed and the Female is not illustrated. For him, a fetishistic strategy was the only answer to the his mother’s death.»
HAIE BRIGITTE: THE STATUS OF FANTASY IN PERVERSION, THROUGH OF P. KLOSSOWSKI’S WRITINGS
The study of fantasy as an adolescent theory permits a preview of the general future orientation of the subject-in-becoming into different clinical structures. More specifically, our point here is the status of fantasy in perversion as illustrated by some of Klossowski’s writings. Through the study of several of the characters, we are able to observe a freeze frame view in the perverse fantasy, which consequently renders the editing of it ineffective. What remains is only a repetitive, boring production.
SAVINAUD CLAUDE: THE EXHIBITIONIST’S DE-MONSTRATION
» A perversion couldn’t exist separately from its disjunction with sexual intercourse. Using a case of peeping-exhibitionism, we will study this dad-version « as making up for a supposed disharmony in the relation between sexes, through the production of a sign, phallus, which presents the Subject through the opposite sex’s gaze. In accordance with an inhibition to enact the separation from the maternal object, it shows that this sexless version of coïtus depends on failure of the real father to intervene in the symbolic castration complex.»
VAILLANT SOLINS ANNE-MARIE, STÉPHANE BOURCET : REFLECTIONS ON THE CRIMINOLOGICAL IMPACT OF PERVERSE ORGANISATIONS IN ADOLESCENCE
The judicial expert is frequently confronted with the problems of puberty and its transitory organisations of a perverse type. Certain clinical elements enable us to make a prognosis as to the possibility that these will stabilize. But, in all cases, the expert must exercise prudence regarding a diagnosis of perversion.
DARGENT FANNY : SCARIFICATIONS AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS : FROM CRUEL MASOCHISM TO PERVERSE SCENARIOS AS A PARADOXICAL MOVEMENT OF SUBJECTIVATION
A clinical case in an adolescent unit of a hospital demonstrates that scarifications serve two consecutive psychic movements. The first one, related to a cruel masochism, seeks to release a tension that cannot be elaborated and that originates in a real trauma that occurred during childhood. The second movement allows for the actualisation of the trauma through the realisation of perverse scenarios (exhibitionistic in particular) in the transference movements in the unit. Paradoxically, this use of the act-symptom in a perverse context allows to restart the processes of symbolisation and of subjectivation when faced with the risks of manifest psychic disorganisations.
EIGUER ALBERTO : CAN ONE SPEAK OF PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE ?
»The author first considers the analysis of this question by pointing out two of the clinician’s stumbling blocks : the difficulty of speaking about psychic structure in the teenager, given the mobility of his mental functioning ; and the association of certain aspects of the crisis of adolescence with a revival of the infantile polymorphic perverse phase. Secondly, he studies three specific clinical situations : defensive movements of a perverse nature ; sexual and moral perversions which appear at this age ; perverse links where a paedophile, incestuous, corrupting or perverse-narcissistic adult takes as object a teenager, who becomes his victim-accomplice.»
GUTTON PHILIPPE :ADOLESCENCE UNMASKED
»The positions commonly designated as perverse « (Freud) are seldom transitory lasting organisations, definitive of the pubertaire. The author argues that perversions have their origin in the pubertaire. They come from a disavowal of otherness specifically as it is symbolized in the « third party « or parental subject of the transference that ordinarily presides in adolescence. The result of this is the repetition of a brute genitality (or of its derivatives : addiction, certain eating disorders and violent behaviours), which is unelaborated and allied with the drive to control. The emancipation of the Superego submits the adolescent to the collective Superego and to ideologies that confront and judge him.»
BONNET GÉRARD : TRANSITORY PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE
»The notion of transitory perversion was used fifty years ago about an adolescent in an article by R. Lebovici that was commented upon and discussed by J. Lacan in his seminar and in his Écrits. The author shows how this notion got lost in the meandering discussions about adult perversion that arose afterwards. However, it is particularly useful now, when there is a tendency to prejudge a subject’s future on the basis of his childhood or adolescent behaviour. We can see that it attests to difficulties in making certain messages prevail over sexual expression in the proper sense, and is a prerequisite for sexual identification. Qualifying the perversion as transitory « is enough to signify that it is not a perversions in the same sense as in the adult, though it nevertheless has much to teach us about adult perversion.»
GADEAU LUDOVIC : RELATION TO THE LAW AND THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY : DISCIPLINARY ACT AND TRANSITIONAL TIME
The author describes a drift in relation to the law and exercise of authority by setting education process and educational response. This opposition is useful to develop educational situations occurring in the vicinity of perversion. The educational responses would operate in the register of contingent reality. They respond to a temporality extemporaneous. The educational act would draw its structuring power of what lies primarily in the symbolic register. It would be governed by a transitional temporality. The author shows that certain intersubjective experiences, when they are subjected to a transitional temporality, give to the educational act its structuring impact.