{"product_id":"what-are-perversions-hardback","title":"What are Perversions? - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45583958638830,"sku":"9780367103637","price":218.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367103637.jpg?v=1721104769","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/what-are-perversions-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}