| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Paraphilias.
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Paraphilias. |
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Desire.
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Desire. |
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Sexual Behavior. |
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Libido. |
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Sexuality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Penney, James, 1971- World of perversion. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791467694 (DLC) 2005019597 (OCoLC)61131744 |
| ISBN |
1429417358 (electronic book) |
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9781429417358 (electronic book) |
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0791467694 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791467695 |
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9780791481677 |
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0791481670 |
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