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The article attempts to examine Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, not only as an adaptation of Marquis de Sade’s work, but as a possible response to the problems of modern society, which reanimates fascism, no longer as political ideology, but as a “natural” form of contemporary human sensibility. Relying on his original “semiology of reality,” the expression of which is cinema, Pasolini’s film embodies the non-political logic of fascism as the logic of perversion, hidden behind the facade of political ideology. The article shows that Salo consistently contradicts the key principles of cinematic expressiveness of Pasolini’s theory itself, which focuses on moments in which “reality” reveals itself (acting as life itself). As a result, the film connects the unconnected - the shock of scenes of torture and sexual violence with a cultural allegory that anesthetizes effect of visual violence. For Pasolini, both violence and culture are mechanisms for analyzing the ephemeral substance of power, which inevitably generates some form of fascism and perversion, while de Sade is the discoverer of the basic sensual (plastic) syntagmas of power, embodied in the figure of the libertine. The sadistic libertinage, which combines the idea of freedom and the practice of torture, finds itself at the very heart of contemporary politics, its operative unconscious.

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The denial of climate change is delineated by means of depth psychological interviews, and is associated with collective perverse thinking that should banish profound fears and disorientation. Analogous to David's concept of „inner racism“, group-analytical processes that lead to the formation and consolidation of enemy images that are ascribed to the respective other camp („the corporations/politicians“, „the eco-fundamentalists“) are described. In this context, „common sense“, which is unconsciously often used as a „stopgap“, is questioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text treats the heterosexual use of sexbots/sex dolls with female attributes as a cultural-technological development and draws conclusions about the relations between the sexes, the commercialization of sexuality and the importance of alterity and relationship. A reading is suggested that is based on the concept of perversion, and it clarifies which needs are served by the current technological development and which remain unfulfilled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Change processes in the psyche can be conceptualized as sublation processes. Such sublation requires a punctuation in the moment of presence in which a reality is about to come into being. Unrepresented states, like hallucinations, actual traumas or forms of breakdown are without link to a verbal representation and only come into their name in the moment of presence. A clinical example is presented that was not, as usual, worked upon after the fact based on secured knowledge but is being put forward for discussion based on the current (unstable) state of knowing -- a conceptualization in statu nascendi. A set of symptoms that can count as a mild perversion but may also be approached as unrepresented material, be it hallucinated or actual. The author poses the question whether breakdowns can exist in the field of the oedipal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will present the art of one of the most interesting authors of Hungarian literature, Katalin Ladik – from the aspect of creating the inorganic metaphor. The Voivodinian and Ex-Yugoslavian neoavantgarde scene will be discussed, especially the authors and relationships of the magazine Új Symposion from Novi Sad (Újvidék). The parallel with the Hungarian experimental art is important as well. The paper analyses the private mythology, autonomous artworks, and mystical anarchy of Ladik from the aspect of perversion, “not hygienic” and transgression. In conclusion, the paper will analyse the works of some young ontemporary authors, in whose works the explosion of trope figures excites similar vibrations as in Ladik’s works.

Aggressiveness, assertiveness, and sexual deviance: An empirical-quantitative examination of Stoller's perversion theory The main aim of the present study was to empirically examinate the psychodynamic-founded perversion theory of Robert D. Stoller (1979), particularly his assumption of a transformation of aggressive impulses into sexual deviant fantasies due to traumatic experiences. Objectives: In the present study different aspects of the theory were examined by using a sample (N = 954) of individuals convicted of sexually motivated offenses who had been clinically and forensically assessed between 2002 and 2018 at the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders (FECVSO) in the Austrian Prison System. As a part of the psychological testing procedure, German-speaking questionnaires for the assessment of aggressiveness and assertiveness were applied. Methods: In the present study different aspects of the theory were examined by using a sample (N = 954) of individuals convicted of sexually motivated offenses who had been clinically and forensically assessed between 2002 and 2018 at the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders (FECVSO) in the Austrian Prison System. As a part of the psychological testing procedure, German-speaking questionnaires for the assessment of aggressiveness and assertiveness were applied. Results: The findings of the present study are in line with the core assumptions of Stoller's perversion theory by demonstrating an inverse relationship between the diagnosis of paraphilia and self-reported aggression.Conclusions: The findings of the present study are in line with the core assumptions of Stoller's perversion theory by demonstrating an inverse relationship between the diagnosis of paraphilia and self-reported aggression.

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This article provides an overview of the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of the phenomenon "sex addiction." The focus is placed on excessive, compulsive sexual behaviour outside the realm of paraphilias; however, paraphilias are described in order to facilitate the differential diagnosis of symptoms. The author criticizes the English language literature due to a lack of specificity in the assumed causes of sexual addiction; the commonly discussed causes are so general that they cannot be distinguished from the causes of other forms of psychopathology. Included is a case report by Wolfgang Berner in which the treatment of sexual addiction in a male patient is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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