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Homoeroticism or same-sex relationship though considered impious and abhorred publicly has existed in the Subcontinent of India in almost all sections and genders of society from the elite to the most downtrodden. Though male homosexuality has been a subject of both public discourse and academic writings, women’s same-sex relationship, however, is largely viewed as taboo and hence is discreetly referred to. This paper drawing upon Judith Butler’s criticism of normative gender with psychoanalytic commentary from Freudian sources investigates the queer characterizations and sexuality in the context of colonial India. Thus, this paper aims to explore and discuss the effects of the homoerotic practices of men and women, especially within the institution of marriage by employing textual analysis of Ismat Chughtai’s short story The Quilt. The story portrays a woman whose desire for her husband is thwarted because of his being homoerotic. This suppressed desire finds its way into her actual and attempted coerced sexual relationships with the other women around her. Homoeroticism, thus, results in gender oppression, economic exploitation, and worst of all paedophilia, all of which remain muffled and silenced because of their association with homoeroticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay studies how Charles Dickens's Hard times problematizes social issues by imagining a heteroglossia of perverted rhetoric. I argue that perversion, as a limited and distorted form of fancy/imagining, is rhetorically used in the novel as a device of satire against social ills perceived by the author(ial narrator). Characters' perverted rhetoric at the intra-diegetic level--including that of Gradgrind, Bounderby, Bitzer and the union agitator Slackbridge--is used to satirize them. This is shown through their turning away from what is true or holding idolatrous beliefs according to the Bible. The narrator's comments on wrongdoings imitate such perversion. The essay shows that forms of perversion are used both as an instrument for characterization and as a narrative strategy to make social critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Pleasure of the text (1973) Roland Barthes makes an extensive use of psychoanalytic concepts and it allows him to talk about text, writer, writing, readers and critics. Roland Barthes says little about desire, although in psychoanalysis it is closely linked to the notion of jouissance and pleasure. The main question to be examined in the given article is the following: What does psychoanalytic optics means for Roland Barthes in his reflections on the Text? Several key concepts of his writing are to be analyzed, namely: jouissance (enjoyment), pleasure, perversion, fetishism, gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how capitalism solidifies its power through Lacanian understanding of subjectivity. The inquiry intervenes in the capitalist ideological fantasy and its inherent antagonisms in order to analyse the way it strives to fill or erase the ruptures it produces in the social order. This is achieved by focusing on the particular proliferation of objects-commodities, which subjectivity transforms into the objects of desire in the framework of capitalist ideology. Furthermore, I focus on the establishment and signification of meaning within the capitalist matrix, as well as its dialectical overlap with the objects proliferated by the socio-economic system in question. The overlap of objects and meaning seems to produce ideological enjoyment, which solidifies capitalist ideology through subjectivity. Therein appears to lie the strength capitalist ideology and its appropriation of even social phenomena into consumerist categories. This paper therefore tries to understand how capitalism manipulates ideological enjoyment in its quest to create social reality seemingly devoid of its antagonisms. It leans on the much-neglected Lacanian discourse of the Capitalist, revealing how the daily reality of subjects is driven by unconscious fantasy in its dogmatic ideological circle. The text also hints at the homology between Lacan's surplus-jouissance and Marx's surplus-value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Psychoanalysts were once thought to be experts on sexual issues, but that is less true today. The rift between psychoanalysis and scientific sexology that occurred in the mid-20th century may be partly responsible. In this article, I suggest ways this situation can be remedied. Psychoanalysts can best become more literate about variant forms of sexuality by reading first-person accounts and by garnering information from empirical research and Internet sites for specific forms of sexuality. In addition, psychoanalysts need to examine their own attitudes to different forms of sexuality, make sure they learn a patient's goals in treatment, be honest and open about whether they can help achieve those goals, and pay attention to the difference between psychopathology and societal pathology. In addition, the analyst needs to be aware of how sexual excitement can unconsciously bind erotic experience with other complex emotions and motivations. A case of coercive voyeurism is presented to illustrate these principles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Drawing on the work of Gayle Rubin, Jonathan Dollimore, and B. Ruby Rich, this paper will explore the ways in which Michael Cuesta's L.I.E. (2000) and Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (2004) portray adolescent male bodies and subjectivities within the context of the queer. Throughout these films, cinematic identification is primarily tied up with the stories of adolescent boys. However, the perverse acts in which they participate (both voluntarily and involuntarily), the inclusion of multiple points of view, and the focus on our own cultural constructions of childhood, adolescent and adult sexualities trace a network of nodes of identification. Thus, I argue that L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin queer identification by imagining a multiplicity, fluidity, and diversity of modes of identification that engage with both the normal and perverse natures of identity, sexuality, and subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the culturally facilitated perverse relating of the female body and how this behaviour is related with women sexual disorders. It describes female perverse relating as one that originates with self-objectification to control a grievious subjectivity within. It claims that the danger feared by women is caused by an intense and uncontrollable desire of something such as obsession of remaining thin, wanting or desiring too much or being or becoming too big.

The commission of sexual crimes repesents the exercise of a deeply retardate consciousness, a personality characterized by serious moral deficiencies and an extremely dangerous rampancy. Among the components of a retardate consciousness that generate such an antisocial conduct can be found most of the times the backwardness mentality, the unkindly, primitive and despicable conception which considers women an inferior being, an object of possession which man can abuse of using his physical strength. This criminological description completes the picture of the social danger that this crimes stand for and highlights the importance of the preventive and combating measures carried out by the police. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article studies the human body, its meanings, and the aspects of the social environment which may contribute to anorexia. In particular, it examines the case of a male anorexic from a sociological and psychoanalytical perspective. It suggests that anorexia may, in some cases, originate from a survival instinct rooted in the need to please others. The article describes the life of the subject based on notes taken during numerous encounters with him. It suggests that the subject's anorexia may be the effect of social phenomena, may reflect psychotic tendencies, and may serve as a form of self-affirmation.

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The article argues that idealization widens the perspective of Sigmund Freud's theory of sublimation. It states that in the classical psychoanalytic theory, idealization represses sexual instincts. Freud says that sublimation is the process wherein a person's sexual aim is diverted to a non-sexual purpose, but instigated by the original aim. The authors believe that there is a conflict between Freud's definition of terminus a quo and terminus ad quem. Freud suggests that sublimation is a one-sided movement whereby courtly love which is equivalent to desexualization is not necessary to achieve sublimation. The article asserts that Freud's understanding of idealization is more subtle. Sublimation which corresponds to courtly love is called Verfubrung.

Abstract: This article discusses the model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as modified for use in forensic services (forensic psychotherapy), and its development at the Portman Clinic, London. Within this model the offence is viewed as analogous to a symptom of a neurotic condition and the treatment involves helping the offender to understand the unconscious meaning of the offence. Through forensic psychotherapy the origins and meaning of the violent or perverse behaviour can become explicit, and this awareness and understanding enables the offender to gain control over his or her impulses. Forensic psychotherapy also helps staff teams and forensic organizations to recognize and manage the psychological impact of work with violent and destructive patients. The response of staff teams to violent and perverse patients can mirror their disturbance and requires understanding; the forensic patient communicates destructive and desperate states of mind through mechanisms such as projection and projective identification, and this can be difficult for those who work with them to manage. Re-enactments of disturbance can be prevented through this understanding. Additionally, the article addresses the unique characteristics of female violence and perversion, and its treatment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]