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Abstract
ABSTRACT Looking back on the evolution of psychoanalytic definitions of perversion, this article uses contemporary clinical experience with chem-sex to explore the borders between sex addiction and a paradigm of perversion. Where is the dividing line now between “normal” and “pathological” insofar as perversion is concerned? If the limit is no longer located as much at the boundaries of genital and pregenital, nor does it apply to any consensual sexual conduct, should it be placed at the limits between life and death? In ways of functioning where enjoyment is found in the action of killing the other’s soul or, on the contrary, bringing to life an inanimate object, the author, with reference to three case studies, attempts to open some avenues for reflection about the modalities of therapeutic framework that come into play in such clinical encounters.
期刊介绍：
Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."
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