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Aggressiveness, assertiveness, and sexual deviance: An empirical-quantitative examination of Stoller's perversion theoryObjectives: 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. 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 results indicated that participants with a diagnosis of paraphilia showed significantly less spontaneously expressed aggression and less social competence compared to individuals without such a diagnosis. 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.

This article discusses, through the analysis of three LGBTQ+ films, Wild and Young [Joven y Alocada] (Marialy Rivas, 2012), A Map to talk [Mapa para conversar] (Constanza Fernández Bertrand, 2011) and Another Love Movie [Otra película de amor] (Edwin Oyarce, 2010), the role of queer subjectivities in revising the Chile's recent past through queering the bildungsroman genre. The coming-out of the younger generation questions the moral and ethical consistency of the older generation by exposing them to their own ethical and ideological fractures as subjects co-opted by the neoliberal system; and at the same time, as involuntary accomplices of the revolutionary failure of Allende's Popular Unity government. The article’s discussion of the formation of new social bonds, ethically consistent with the younger generation’s desires and horizons of meaning, and their exploration through the figure of the "perverse queer teen," completes the proposed analysis of the new social and intersubjective contracts present in Chile today. El presente artículo discute el papel de las subjetividades queer en la revisión del pasado reciente de Chile por medio del análisis de tres películas de temática LGBTQ+: Joven y Alocada (Marialy Rivas, 2012), Mapa para conversar (Constanza Fernández Bertrand, 2011) y Otra película de amor (Edwin Oyarce, 2010). La revelación (coming-out) de la identidad sexual y de género de los representantes de las generaciones más jóvenes redefine el género del bildungsroman de modo de cuestionar la consistencia moral y ética de la generación mayor exponiéndolos en sus fracturas éticas e ideológicas como sujetos cooptados por el sistema neoliberal, a la vez que, definiéndolos como cómplices involuntarios del fracaso revolucionario del proyecto de la Unidad Popular del gobierno de Salvador Allende. La formación de los nuevos lazos sociales junto con los procesos de individuación son explorados por medio de la figura del “adolescente perverso queer,” un sujeto éticamente consistente con sus deseos y horizontes de sentido cuya presencia desestabiliza

In this essay, the author suggests that the mendacious turn in U.S. political discourse reflects a structural perversion. Political perversion refers to a kind of discourse that both affirms and denies consensus reality at the same time, often in the service of causing harm to others. To this end, he argues that the figure of former U.S. President Donald Trump is the condensation symbol of a larger structural perversion in this country, which thrives on rumor, spectacle, and meanness. Dans cet essai, l’auteur suggère que le tournant mendiant du discours politique américain reflète une perversion structurelle. La perversion politique désigne un type de discours qui affirme et nie en même temps la réalité consensuelle, souvent dans le but de causer du tort à autrui. À cette fin, il soutient que la figure de l’ancien président américain Donald Trump est le symbole condensé d’une perversion structurelle plus large dans ce pays, qui prospère sur la rumeur, le spectacle et la méchanceté.

The high rate of violence, abuse and sexual perversion among children in Indonesia is increasingly worrying. Sexual education has not yet been included in the academic curriculum in elementary or high schools in Indonesia. Sexual education is still thematic and conducted when meeting the right moment that is not planned. The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge about sexual problem prevention behavior for children using serial card education media. This is a quasi-experimental study to increase the sexual knowledge among respondents by using serial card as education media. Study was conducted in October 2020 to 53 students of 6th grade (11-13 years old) of SDN 36 Gunung Sarik that chosen with purposive sampling. The paired data hypothesis analysis (paired t-test) results obtained from the pre-test and post-test for students showed that sexual education using serial card media was effective in increasing students' knowledge of preventive behavior from various risks of violence, harassment, and sexual perversion.Â

In a political moment plagued with conspiracy theories and other perversions of logic, Joshua Gunn's book Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering suggests that such...

Introducción. El presente trabajo analiza los orígenes del gimnasio moderno durante el siglo XIX, período de edificación de los sistemas gimnásticos. Durante este período, la mujer occidental accede gradualmente al uso de las prácticas gimnásticas, ya desde la apariencia educativa, higiénica o recreativa. Objetivos. El objeto de estudio es el de descubrir, en el caso concreto de España, los discursos expresados por los poderes de la masculinidad que hicieron del gimnasio y de las prácticas gimnásticas un dispositivo de feminización. Metodología. La metodología utilizada es de base historicista y se concreta por un tratamiento documentalista, el análisis de contenido de los textos y, además, la revisión de otros estudios que facilitan la interpretación contextual. Resultados. Se concluye argumentando que el proceso de incorporación de la mujer decimonónica en las prácticas gimnásticas estuvo condicionado por los discursos subyacentes del patriarcado de la masculinidad, que ocultaban los temores de una sociedad que creían en decadencia. Discusión. En el gimnasio del siglo XIX el cuerpo femenino se convertía en un ente vigilado por el dominio del hombre que buscaba la salud de la mujer para proteger la descendencia. Con lo cual, el gimnasio se configuró como un centro de dominación facultativo en donde el cuerpo femenino se sometía al examen articulándose una perversión ontológica de la realidad femenina. Introduction. The nineteenth century is the period when the gymnastics systems were constructed. Western women were gradually included in the gymnastic practices, be they educational, hygienic or recreational. Objectives. The aim of this study is to discover the discourses by the powers of masculinity that made the gymnasium and the gymnastic practices a device for feminisation, specifically in the case of Spain. Methodology. A historicist methodology is used, specifically using a documentalist process, text analysis, and also a review of other studies which offer a contextual interpretation. Results. The paper concludes by arguing that the process of including nineteenth century women in gymnastic practices was conditioned by the underlying discourses of masculinity, which hid the fears of a society that they believed was in decline. Discussion. In the gymnasium of the 19th century, the female body became an entity guarded by the dominion of men who sought the health of women to protect their offspring. With this, the gymnasium was configured as a facultative domination center where the female body was subjected to examination, articulating an ontological perversion of the female reality.

Resumo: O presente ensaio aborda alguns aspectos da temática das perversões e seu arcabouço teórico-clínico. Inicialmente, parte-se de uma revisão bibliográfica dos textos freudianos sobre as perversões e sua íntima imbricação com o sexual em sua obra. Em seguida, serão analisadas as contribuições teóricas de Robert Stoller sobre a clínica das perversões e sua conceitualização como forma erótica do ódio. Procura-se apontar como as inovações teóricas de Stoller possibilitaram uma nova forma de compreensão na clínica das perversões. Conclui- se que as observações clínicas feitas por Freud e, posteriormente, Stoller ecoam na contemporaneidade, demonstrando a inovação e ousadia conceitual de ambos os autores.Palavras-chave: Perversão. Erotização do ódio. Sexualidade. Conceito.Abstract: This essay addresses some aspects of the theme of perversions and their theoretical-clinical framework. Initially, it starts with a bibliographic review of Freudian texts on perversions and their intimate overlap with the sexual in his work. Then, Robert Stoller ́s theoretical contributions on the clinic of perversions and their conceptualization as an erotic from of hatred will be analyzed. It seeks to point out how Stoller ́s theoretical innovations enable a new form of understanding in the clinic of perversions. It is concluded that the clinical observations made by Freud and, later, Stoller echo in contemporary times, demonstrating the innovation and conceptual boldness of both authors. Keywords: Perversion. Hatred eroticization. Sexuality. Concept.

EnglishThis article combines Deleuze’s extraordinary analysis of Michel Tournier’s Friday, where we find the presentation of a duplicated, perverted, version of Robinson Crusoe when compared to Daniel Defoe’s classical version, with a critical analysis of conceptions such as being-in-the-world, stemming from Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology. My point is that without Others [Autrui], or what Deleuze calls the structure-Other [structure Autrui], it is the very possibility of ‘interpreting’ being-in-the-world which is at stake, being a world without Others, the structure-Other, one wherein a pre-ontological comprehension of being is ‘uncomprehended', no longer being it possible to attain a facticity of being precisely insofar as one lives, suffers, without Others, a process of an inverted nature, not so much of the facticity of being but of its ‘defacticization’ (the movement of being-thrown out of and not into the world). I propose, therefore, a new conception of the limit of being-in-the-world not in terms of death but of Others, of what it is to lose Others, the structure-Other, and how this loss implies losing being-in-the-world, the very possibility of interpreting, of comprehending its different structures (being-there, being-with, being-towards-death, etc.). The concept of Others functions then as a giant fold between being-in-the-world and what Artaud called ‘the other side of existence’, but also between the absence of Others and the creation of ‘worlds without Others’, all of which ‘minor’, ‘desert islands’, ‘plateaus’, constituted in the immanence of this absence, of the ‘outside’. portuguesEste artigo combina a extraordinaria analise por parte de Deleuze de Sexta-feira ou os Limbos do Pacifico, de Michel Tournier, que apresenta um Robinson Crusoe duplo, perverso, em relacao ao de Daniel Defoe, com uma analise critica de concepcoes como a de ser-no-mundo, resultantes da hermeneutica fenomenologica de Heidegger. O meu ponto e que sem outrem [Autrui], ou o que Deleuze chama a estrutura-outrem [structure Autrui], nao e possivel ‘interpretar' ser-no-mundo, que, por outras palavras, o que se descompreende sem esta estrutura e justamente uma compreensao pre-ontologica do ser, nao se atingindo a facticidade do ser precisamente por se viver, se sofrer, sem outrem, um processo inverso, o de uma ‘desfactizacao' do proprio fato ou facticidade do ser. Proponho, portanto, uma nova concepcao do limite de ser-no-mundo nao em termos da morte mas de outrem, do que e perder outrem, a estrutura-outrem, e como esta perda implica a perda de ser-no-mundo, a possibilidade ela mesma de interpretar, de compreender, as suas diferentes estruturas (ser-ai, ser-com, ser-para-a-morte, etc.) O conceito de outrem funciona assim como uma gigante dobra entre ser-no-mundo e o seu avesso ou o que Artaud definiu como ‘o outro lado da existencia’, mas tambem entre a ausencia de outrem e a criacao de ‘mundos sem outrem', todos eles ‘menores', ‘ilhas desertas', 'plateaus', constituidos na imanencia desta ausencia, do proprio ‘fora'.

I investigate the possibility that in order to reach truly disturbed parts of the patient's mind, the analyst also may need to mobilise similar areas in his own psyche. I examine the part musicality might contribute to this well-known idea, that is, I consider what is set off in the analyst's mind by the changing qualities of the actual music of the analytic couple's voices, and also by the musical events that occur in response in the analyst's mind. The term perversion is particularly used to explore the perverse qualities of the musical countertransference. I propose that these primal musical processes are ubiquitous, taking place at a fundamental psychic level before images or words are formed. I re-examine Isaacs' (1948) theory that the images of unconscious phantasy are the most archaic expression of the drives, and suggest that the music of unconscious phantasy may assert its prior claim in this regard, the infant's ability to form images deriving from this prior musical capacity. I propose that the words - a much later development - that are then uttered by the analytic couple can be thought of as the text in which the mind attempts to describe what is already occurring musically at the level of the drives and unconscious phantasy. I suggest that many operas offer a paradigm of this process, and offer a helpful way for analysts to think about verbal communication, both interpersonal and intrapsychic.

This article examines the pornographic representation of Hailiwa and Daokousu, from Songzhuxuan’s novel Yaohu Yanshi, where a sworn brotherhood incorporates an egalitarian homosexual relationship, ...

Creative works allow a discourse that can be collectively subjective, rather than denuding experienced meanings through attempts at objectification. Jennifer Fox’s film The Tale offers an encounter...

Este artículo nos muestra la evolución del marketing político. Desde el modelo 1.0, hasta la consolidación del nuevo paradigma 3.0. Llegando a quedar demostrada la perversión del modelo del markteing 3.0 debido al uso que los partidos políticos hacen de las narrativas presentes en la posverdad como una forma de aumentar su fidelización con el ciudadano, luego electorado, mediante la construcción de mensajes hiperbólicos y segmentados. Se partió del siguiente objetivo general: analizar si la consolidación del modelo marketing político 3.0 y su uso por parte de los partidos políticos españoles, se vio afectado por la utilización de narrativas de propias de la posverdad. La metodología de trabajo utilizada fue la cualitativa y analítica comparativa. Se hicieron uso de los siguientes instrumentos: la observación directa, las entrevistas, el panel de expertos y la revisión documental. Las conclusiones alcanzadas, así como el trabajo que aquí se presenta, es el resultado de dos investigaciones complementarias: La aplicación del marketing político 3.0. El caso del éxito de Podemos y Ciudadanos en las elecciones de 2014,2015 y 2016 y Marketing político 3.0: Como Podemos, Ciudadanos y Vox han cambiado las reglas del juego. Los resultados que pudimos extraer se resumen en: (1) Todos los partidos políticos españoles han incorporado de la posverdad a sus discursos favoreciendo: polarización, radicalización y enemigos invisibles. (2) La intensidad y el volumen de los mensajes condicionados por los partidos políticos españoles dependen del público que quieran captar. (3) La co-creación y la construcción de mensajes ilusionantes, ha sido sustituido por una construcción distópica centrada en la “búsqueda del culpable”.

Objective: The main tasks of this study are as follows: to substantiate the interdependence of perversion as a form of violence and the human ego in the context of hybrid warfare; to prove the existence of perversion as a form of violence against a person in the context of hybrid warfare in Ukraine (personal perversion); to describe the alteration of ego states as conditions for effective human self-regulatory activity in the context of hybrid warfare. Background: Hybrid warfare, including the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, as a phenomenon, has been widely studied both abroad and in Ukraine. However, there are very few works on the psychological impact of such a war. There are currently no works on disorders of human self-regulatory activity in the context of hybrid warfare, which makes the study unique and relevant. Method: The study used a combination of various methods, in particular, structural-clinical interviews, psychological counseling and therapeutic meetings, data analysis. Data were collected for 2014-2020. The total number of participants was 55 people aged 25 to 63 years, with 70% female and 30% male. Results: The latent tension and denial of hybrid warfare result in a gradual increase of neurotization, which is in 95% of cases passes into a neurosis state with concomitant manifestations of symptoms. There is also a deterioration in psychological well-being and phylogenetic disorders (erogenous dysfunction in men, uncontrolled neurotic masturbation in women). Disorders of the mental level of self-regulation determine the manifestation of the mental content of perversion, in which perversion takes on the character of intrapersonal functioning. Conclusion: The combination of disorders of the physical, mental and personal levels of the self-regulatory activity of the psyche increased perverse tendencies in social and political life, which provoked a high rate of psychotization of the entire society and an increase in deficit characterological manifestations of each individual.

This article analyses the slippery notions of the normal and normality in select works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and argues that homosexuality became a ‘boundary object’ between the normal and the abnormal in their works. Constructing homosexuality as ‘normal enough’ provided these two key thinkers of the fin de siècle with an opportunity to challenge societal and medical norms: Krafft-Ebing did this through mapping perversions; Freud, by challenging perceived norms about sexual development more broadly. The article submits that the scientific logic presented in Krafft-Ebing’s seminal case study compilation Psychopathia Sexualis and Freud’s early theoretical writings and cases, including Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), was itself haunted by notions of norms and the normal that were not always easy to resolve, and sometimes involved a certain amount of inspired conjecture on the part of both thinkers in order to develop and validate their differing tripartite models of normality. Krafft-Ebing imagined homosexuality as a variation of the normal by generalizing a gay male experience. He also recorded the obstreperous cases of homosexual women based largely inside the clinic but by and large ignored this evidence. Freud inextricably bound homosexuality to normality (and vice versa) by redefining homosexuals as a group to include individuals with unconscious same-sex desire. Doing so allowed him to conceptualize the fear of homosexuality as crucial in the formation of neurosis and psychosis, and at the same time put him at odds with relevant early identity politics.

The discussion will be opened on the implications and differences for the analysis of pedophilia used as an obsessive symptomatic idea with possibilities of passing into the act, and perversion itself.An attempt is made to convey the evolution of a clinical case by working on this idea with the patient as a compromise solution between the desire and the need for social punishment. A clinical fragment is used in order to analyze a psychopathological question and delve into the uniqueness of the case without trying to construct a generalization. Additionally, questions will be opened about how enigmatic perversion is for psychoanalysis, establishing bridges to reflect on what connects and what separates the individual from that choice and what would be the conditions of possibility in their ability to cancel it.

As recently as the 1980s, sexual perversion was not thought to occur in women. From Freud onwards, the broad consensus held that, not having a penis, women were not capable of such behaviour. That ...

Internet pornography should not be automatically considered deleterious to adolescent development just as no one environmental factor is ever pathogenic. Nonetheless, it should not be considered as...

2020 ushered in the convergence of multiple societal, political, environmental, and health crises. Racial reckoning collided with fearmongering on a national scale and punitive policies targeted non-citizens simultaneous to the global health pandemic COVID-19. COVID-19 required the unexpected pivoting from in-person instruction to what was, for most, an uncharted total reliance on virtual and remote delivery (Lederman 2020). The complexities of crafting content across multiple modalities amid national and global turmoil meant that curricular creativity became paramount (Mishra et. al, 2020). I will begin by discussing why comic books were an ideal medium and how I used them in the midst of curricular and sociopolitical upheaval. Next, I will describe lessons inspired by the issue of the comic book El peso hero, titled The Essentials, that were effective to broach politicized topics in class, such as the essentiality of migrant labor, immigration categories, contradictions between labels and policies, and racialized political rhetoric. Finally, to demonstrate how pictorial storytelling lent itself to internalize and eventually narrate what Landis et al. (2008) refer to as “difficult dialogues,” I will highlight examples of multi- and single-panel visuals created by students.

The influence of the Internet provokes young people of minor age to become addicted to watching porn sites. The sexual tension of young people leads to relaxation in the form of masturbation. Adolescents may develop an inferiority complex. There is a threat of sexual perversion among young people. The aim of this work is to identify the psychological characteristics of individuals suffering from various types of sexual disorders and to eliminate them by suggestion in hypnosis. Treatment in hypnosis can improve the sexual relationship of partners, remove tension in their interpersonal relationships.

Esta pesquisa buscou aprofundar sobre a temática da perversão no registro do laço social a partir das contribuições freudianas, bem como de autores contemporâneos, a fim de sublinhar as tensões entre sujeito e cultura que se estruturam nos conflitos entre Eros e pulsão de morte. A questão central desta pesquisa implicou em elucidar os fundamentos da perversão do laço social, trazendo para o centro da discussão a perversidade como ponto articulador entre desejo de destruição e o Mal-estar como condição humana. Diante desta problemática, formulou-se a hipótese de que há duas bases cruciais para pensar a perversão nesse registro. A primeira estaria no processo de constituição do sujeito, fruto de uma erótica mortífera inerente à própria sexualidade humana, e que se formula tanto pelo ímpeto de Eros, quanto pelo potencial de destruição das pulsões de morte. A segunda, já na esfera coletiva, propõe que os impasses estruturais entre cultura e sujeito evocam a perversidade como expressão da ação da pulsão de morte nas relações sociais. Desse modo, os fundamentos de Eros que sustentam o laço social e o pacto civilizatório, fracassam. No objetivo geral desta pesquisa, buscou-se entender a perversão do laço social considerando as antíteses que se estabelecem entre sujeito e cultura. Como objetivos específicos, propôs-se analisar o conceito de perversão que transcorre do período pré-psicanalítico, passando pelos três tempos da perversão em Freud, até os autores pós-freudianos, a fim de evidenciar a transição da perversão sob o paradigma das práticas sexuais desviantes às manifestações hostis presentes nas relações intersubjetivas. Ao fim deste percurso, a perversidade mostrou-se como elemento central da perversão social. Como metodologia de pesquisa, utilizou-se a revisão bibliográfica, a fim de eleger os textos freudianos e pós-freudianos que dialogam com a proposta temática, e a análise conceitual de base psicanalítica destes mesmos textos, objetivando construir a exposição teórica necessária às articulações presentes. No desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, elucidou-se a perversidade como a união de três registros: o ódio, a crueldade e a violência. É a partir destes que a perversidade é tomada como a expressão do mal radical humano e se apresenta como um possível horizonte da perversão do laço social. Por estar remetida às relações do sujeito com a cultura, a perversidade revela a luta infindável entre as pulsões de morte e Eros, e a primazia da primeira sobre a segunda. Desta antítese estrutural, revelou-se que o trabalho psíquico que funda a cultura sobre a exigência de sublimação das metas pulsionais perversas, também realça o alcance destrutivo das pulsões de morte no seio da própria cultura. É sob o paradigma da desfusão pulsional que se pode compreender a articulação entre pulsão de morte e laço social perverso. This study sought to research social perversion based on the contributions of Freud and contemporary authors, with the aim of highlighting the conflict between subject and culture. The central question of this research implies elucidating the fundamentals of the perversion of the social bond, bringing perversity to the center of the discussion as an articulating point between the desire for destruction and the malaise as a human condition. Two hypotheses are formulated about the constitution of perversion in the social bond. The first would be in the subject's constitution process, which is formulated both by the impetus of Eros and by the potential to destroy the death drives. In this way, the foundations of Eros that sustain the social bond and the civilizing pact, fail. In the general objective of this research, we sought to understand the perversion of the social bond considering the antitheses that are established between subject and culture. As specific objectives, the trajectory of perversion was analyzed under the sexual paradigm for the hostile manifestations present in intersubjective relationships. At the end of this journey, perversity proved to be a central element of social perversion. As research methodology, bibliographic review was used in order to select the Freudian and post-Freudian texts that dialogue with the thematic proposal, and the conceptual analysis of these same texts to build the theoretical exposition necessary for the present articulations. In the development of this research, perversity was elucidated as the union of three registers: hate, cruelty and violence. It is from these that perversity is taken as the expression of radical human evil and presents itself as a possible horizon for the perversion of the social bond. As it is linked to the subject's relations with culture, perversity reveals the endless struggle between the death drives and Eros, and the primacy of the first over the second. From this structural antithesis, it was revealed that the psychic work that founded the culture on the demand for sublimation of perverse instinctual goals, also highlights the destructive reach of the death instincts within the culture itself. It is under the paradigm of drive defusion that the articulation between death drive and perverse social bond can be elucidated. Dissertação (Mestrado)

U svojoj filozofiji religije Welte je osobitu pozornost posvetio razmatranju onoga što on naziva »izvršenje religije«. Budući da je to izvršenje, među ostalim, potaknuto i čovjekovim traganjem za smislom, prilog započinje Welteovim izlaganjem o nerazdruživoj vezi smisla i religije. Time se pak nužno dolazi do pojma Boga jer je On nositelj smisla. Na tragu njemačke mistike te posebno M. Eckharta, Welte se usteže Boga podvrgnuti svakoj kategorijalnosti te Ga označava pojmovima neizrecivi, beskonačni, skriveni. Kao onomu koji je neizreciv i skriven, Bogu se pristupa molitvom i njezinim oblicima, čime se pokazuje da su upravo to autentični načini čovjekova odnosa prema Bogu: time smo došli do središnje komponente članka, koja je sadržana u predstavlja-nju temeljnih aspekta welteovskoga viđenja molitve – molitva kao šutnja, kao govor i kao kult. Svaki od tih pristupa sadrži svoju osobitost: molitva šutnje nikako nije negacija istinskoga govora; molitvu govora pak u bitnome karakterizira dvopolnost, dok u kultu na poseban način do izražaja dolazi pojam zajednice i s njom okupljačka dimenzija govora. Prilog završava razmatranjem opasnosti u koje izvršavanje religije s obzirom na molitvu i kult može skliznuti. To, kako ga njemački filozof naziva, izopačenje religije predstavlja stari, a uvijek novi problem svake religije: »Ovaj me narod časti samo usnama, a srce mu je daleko od mene.« (Mk 7, 6), In his philosophy of religion, Welte paid particular attention to the consideration of what he called the »practice of religion.« Since this practice is prompted, among other things, by man’s search for meaning, the article begins with Welte’s exposition on the inseparable connection of meaning and religion. This, in turn, necessarily leads to the concept of God because He is the bearer of meaning. Following in the footsteps of German mysticism, and especially M. Eckhart, Welte refrains from subjecting God to any categoricalness and describes Him with the terms unspeakable, infinite, hidden. As one who is unspeakable and hidden, God is approached by prayer and its forms, which shows that these are the authentic ways of man’s relationship toward God: thus we come to the central component of the article, which is contained in presenting the fundamental aspects of Welte’s vision of prayer – prayer as silence, as speech, and as cult. Each of these approaches contains its own peculiarity: the prayer of silence is by no means a negation of true speech; the prayer of speech, on the other hand, is essentially characterized by bipolarity, while in the cult the notion of community and with it the unifying dimension of speech comes to the fore in a special way. The article concludes by considering the dangers into which the practice of religion may slip regarding prayer and cult. This perversion of religion, as the German philosopher calls it, is the old and always new problem of every religion: »These people honor me with their lips, and their hearts are far from me.« (Mark 7:6)

Tingginya angka kekerasan, pelecehan, serta penyimpangan seksual pada anak di Indonesia semakin mengkhawatirkan. Edukasi seksual belum masuk ke dalam kurikulum akademik di sekolah dasar ataupun sekolah menengah di Indonesia. Edukasi seksual masih bersifat tematik dan diberikan saat bertemu momen tepat yang tidak terencana. Tujuan kegiatan ini adalah untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan tentang perilaku pencegahan masalah seksual bagi anak dengan media edukasi kartu berseri. Kegiatan dilakukan di SDN 36 Gunung Sarik Padang, pada 54 siswa kelas 6. Metode kegiatan ini terbagi atas beberapa tahapan, yaitu brainstorming dengan pihak sekolah, pengembangan media edukasi kartu berseri, diseminasi media kartu berseri kepada pihak sekolah, dan edukasi seksual dengan media kartu berseri kepada siswa. Hasil uji hipotesis data berpasangan yang diperoleh dari pre-test dan post-test kepada siswa/siswi menunjukkan bahwa edukasi seksual dengan media kartu berseri efektif dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan siswa tentang perilaku pencegahan dari berbagai risiko masalah kekerasan, pelecehan, dan penyimpangan seksual. Diperlukan upaya yang berkelanjutan dalam membentuk perilaku positif pencegahan masalah seksual pada anak, dengan pelibatan berbagai pihak, seperti orang tua, guru, dan teman sejawat, serta kebijakan yang dari hulu berupa pengadaan kurikulum akademik.

In 1990, Thomas Elsaesser wrote that Brechtian aesthetics are toothless in a hyperreal image culture. Thirty years on, this essay reworks the notion of distanciation by asking: what if we cannot decide whether the unnatural behavior of characters on screen is the product of Brechtian alienation or of the character’s own perversion, but rather is caused by both (and therefore neither)? To chart the transition between orthodox and “perverse” Brechtianisms, this essay compares a film by a director whose melodramas are often read as examples of Brechtian cinema, Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), and a film by a contemporary director whose work is often misread as the very thing it satirizes, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (2016). This essay argues that, in the absence of a world “out there” to represent, the techniques of Brecht become perverse, a Sadean laboratory for the rehearsal of illicit forms of pleasure.

Quel que soit son âge, l’individu pervers inquiète autant qu’il fascine. La signification saine ou pathologique des comportements sexuels chez l’enfant n’apparaît pas toujours de façon évidente. Comme adulte et clinicien, nous admettons difficilement l’existence d’une problématique d’ordre sexuel chez l’enfant. Pourtant, celui-ci peut développer une sexualité préoccupante, prenant la forme d’une perversion sexuelle. Après un rappel de considérations générales sur la thématique, l’article propose d’envisager les éléments de mise en place d’une perversion sexuelle chez l’enfant. Comme dans la plupart des syndromes et entités cliniques, on retrouve une conjonction de facteurs intrinsèques et d’autres, externes, contextuels voire sociétaux. Ensuite, nous discutons de la prise en charge en proposant une systématisation souple dans le processus évaluatif permettant à la fois de respecter la temporalité d’une nécessaire élaboration et de prendre le temps d’une réflexion en termes de diagnostic différentiel afin de proposer des axes thérapeutiques pertinents. [How to understand and accompany the perverted child?] Whatever his age, the perverted individual worries as much as he fascinates. The healthy or pathological meaning of child sexual behaviour is not always evident. As adults and clinicians, we have difficulty recognizing the existence of a sexual problem in children. However, it can develop a disturbing sexuality in the form of sexual perversion. After a reminder of general considerations on the topic, the article proposes to consider the establishment of a sexual perversion in the child. As in most syndromes and clinical entities, there is a combination of intrinsic and other factors, external, contextual and even societal. Afterwards, we approach the management by proposing a flexible systematization in the evaluative process allowing both to respect the temporality of a necessary elaboration and to take the time to reflect in terms of differential diagnosis in order to propose relevant therapeutic axes.

The epigraph in Knafo and Lo Bosco's book, a quote from Kant, succinctly describes perversion as a tendency towards the crooked: “Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing ent...

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term “female physician” should be exclusively app...

The written work hereby presented is the result of cognitive development within the course of study for the Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology subject area of the Faculty of Psychology of the UNR corresponding to thematic unit III “The perverse struc-ture and the pere-versions”. Based on one of the pillar texts, “A Child is Being Beaten,” we interrogate the drive (Trieb) and ghosting articulation, that is, the perverse-polymorphous sexuality and the remaining enigmas regarding perversion as a structure. As a result of reading the text we will place the ghost as a support of desire underlining the enjoyment it implies and the possible fates in its articulation your articulation to the drive (Trieb). We will propose the reading of the “Sixth case” that Freud does not explicitly name, but we can read and conjecture from a text by Ana Freud.

This article challenges current psychoanalytical thought according to which the three Lacanian clinics of the neurotic, pervert and psychotic coexist in any given era, and suggests instead that ide...

Looking beyond the notorious “Brideshead” aesthetes and homoeroticism of 1920s Oxford, this article explores the queer sensibilities of the university's male undergraduates and their associates through the 1930s. Steadily through the decade, Oxford's unique brand of queer aestheticism and same-sex love affairs became embroiled with wider debates about the hegemony of socialism and communism and the supposed degeneracy of standards at Oxford. At the same time, the assimilation of medicalized concepts of perversion and homosexuality increasingly made Oxford's aesthetes and same-sex love affairs objects of critical scrutiny, effeminophobia, and homophobia. For many of the university's queer male undergraduates, the Oxford University Dramatic Society provided a safe haven and a platform for queer expression both in Oxford and beyond. A group of images by the Russian émigré photographer Cyril Arapoff provides further insights into the male homoerotics of 1930s Oxford. Situated within the context of Arapoff's life in the city between 1933 and 1939, his extraordinary photographs of nude and seminude young men offer glimpses into the queer lives and loves at Oxford in a period when such experiences were rarely articulated in written form. The images include the spaces the young men inhabited and their interconnections to London's vibrantly queer dance and theater scene. Such insights help establish more firmly interwar Oxford as an important hub of queer modernism, with national and international import for the course of modern queer history.

This article offers a critical examination of the contemporary imperative to ‘trust science’ from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It begins by putting contemporary scientific research...

Fyodor Sologub's tale of crazed sinfulness, The Petty Demon, has remained in the heart of Russian culture since its introduction in 1907, leaving what can best be described as an appreciated scar. The greatest Byronic tales utilize the acceptance of decadence to create complex characters that allow audiences to peer into the darker side of humanity, and often themselves, while still maintaining some emotional connection to the antihero. While the depravity displayed in The Petty Demon is often the most prominent feature, the contrasted relationships of the characters Lyudmila and Peredonov reveal key insights toward understanding of the novel's thematic and socioemotional framing of women and the mentally ill. These patterns are analyzed in the context of the novel and compared to those in other works of the Russian canon with the help of papers by Hustis, Mills, and Greene. Lyudmilla's few unsatisfactory and foreign excuses for her perversion fail to help her escape the sexist symbolism she embodies as a female character, resulting in her solidification as a gossiping temptress with little room for reader empathy or a separation from the basic stereotypes women were already saddled with. Peredonov's escalating madness is contrasted against her evils in a manner that accentuates her follies while failing to separate many of his cruel actions from his mental illness. The resulting feelings coalesce to project the characters' worst qualities upon the innocent and underprivileged through the vehicles of familiar archetypes, contributing to the perpetuation of harmful cultural perspectives on such groups.

The indigenous hymnology has experienced a lot of tonality distortion in Nigeria due to the direct translation of Western hymn tunes to the indigenous hymns. Different scholars have identified this act of perversion, but little or no documentation can be found on the method(s) that can be used in correcting this perverse act. The focus of this paper is on Yoruba hymnody. In this light, the paper examines and discuss the abnormality found in Yoruba indigenous hymns, through an analytical content of three selected indigenous Yoruba hymns and propounds methods and implementation strategies towards correcting the aforementioned act of perversion. Findings revealed that most of the indigenous hymns had been distorted in meaning due to the deformation of the indispensable Yoruba tone language. The paper discusses and draws out specific lessons that would serve as channels and even methods for consideration during composition, especially by Nigerian art composers. Tackling this challenge from a unanimous perspective, the effort will address the articulation and use of tonal inflexions in Yoruba Nigerian hymns.

Este texto é resultado do trabalho de duas conferências proferidas no Fórum do Campo Lacaniano de Fortaleza, em fevereiro de 2019, na ocasião de abertura dos seminários sobre topologia. No primeiro momento, Bernard Nominé falou sobre o encontro de Lacan com o nó borromeano e suas repercussões na psicanálise, apontando questões teóricas antes mal-entendidas que puderam ser reenlaçadas ao longo de sua prática. Depois, o autor se deteve à relação do nó borromeano com a escrita da clínica, lembrando-nos que nossas categorias de neurose, psicose e perversão muitas vezes não são suficientes para extrair a lógica de determinados casos. Assim, apresenta-se a necessidade de se conhecer o manejo da cadeia borromeana, suas principais falhas, consequências e reparações possíveis. Para tanto, é preciso ir adiante naquilo que o autor denomina de “solfejo do nó”.

Este trabajo de investigación buscó detectar las tendencias a la transgresión de normas basada en 14 muestras de adultos que estudian en el 10mo curso de educación primaria de la jornada nocturna en un colegio fiscal de la ciudad de Guayaquil – Ecuador. Se hizo énfasis en la teoría médico-psiquiátrica y en el psicoanálisis. El primer encuadre acuña el constructo de trastorno de la personalidad antisocial cuyas tendencias son: ser dramáticos; mantenimiento de relaciones interpersonales superficiales, además de conflictivas de modo superlativo; problemas con las normas morales o la ley. El siguiente encuadre fue el psicoanalítico que, desde el constructo de perversión, donde el sujeto goza poniendo como objeto al otro dentro de una relación asimétrica de poder. Se utilizó el Protocolo Invertido de Alertas Gráficas© para la detección de sujetos transgresores de normas en la evaluación grafológica donde se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: invasión de espacio ajeno, problemas para acatar órdenes de la autoridad, estallidos de irritabilidad como respuesta a la baja tolerancia a situaciones frustrantes o estresoras, ideas confusas cuya consecuencia sea el tener comportamientos difíciles o complejos, abandonar las tareas si no obtienen resultados rápidos y no asumir la responsabilidad de los actos, delegándola a terceros. Palabras clave: transgresión, normas, psiquiatría, psicoanálisis, grafología.

A contemporary definition of perversion is offered that aims to reveal a form of psychic functioning as a quality of being toward others in the external world, translating to a mode of relating toward internal objects, and/or a mode of relating toward one's body as an object. This quality of being is contrasted with perversion denoting a specific set of behaviors, as in classical conceptualizations. Two schematics illustrate healthy and perverse phenomenological positions (i.e. identifiable within the person's preconscious or conscious perspective and experience). These positions highlight ways in which perverse modes of experiencing can be depicted, by use of internal psychic positions and the extent to which these are integrated, interpenetrate one another or are truncated and foreclosed. In particular, a perverse internal psychic mode is proposed where affective, embodied, and pre-reflective self-experience is split off or dissociated. The case of Laura is offered as an illustration of a perverse mode of being and a perverse relationship to her body. I also suggest that perverse modes of relating towards others (primarily through objectification) is more common in males whereas the objectification of one's body is more common in females.

To try to understand acting out, it depends of conciliation between the reality of the act and the psychic life. For that, it is necessary to listen the word of the criminal authors. What transgression represents for them? Based on clinical experience in a correctional center, this article takes a closer look about prisoner, incarcerated after having committed criminal acts. This clinical material could help to raise a new perspective around modern psychopathology. What is the act's difference between neurosis, perversion, borderline and psychosis? Our research will try to differentiate the psychic issues.

Paul expresses the common Jewish view that same-sex relations typify the depravity of the non-Jewish world, primarily as a means of finding common ground with those who would be listening to his letter and to argue that sins by his own Jewish people, though different, are no less deplorable and conclude that therefore both need Christ’s redemption. Assuming God created humans male and female, he finds the roots of such behavior in distorted minds and passions resulting from distorted understandings of God.

This short article explores the relationship between sexual perversion, as defined by Estela Welldon and illustrated by the late architect and author, Martin Frishman, and the work of the nineteenth-century artist, Aubrey Beardsley. It primarily argues that in both the acting out of sexual perversion and the creation of illustrations considered perverse, there is a shared desire to transform the experience of shame into the experience of fame. In the perpetrating of a perverse sexual offence, the assault can be regarded as an uncontrollable compelling urge for immediate action. Despite knowing this action is wrong, the offender cannot resist the impulse. The action of the assault offers immediate relief from unbearable anxiety and ultimately transfigures shame, however briefly, into fame. In the creation of sexualised and scandalous drawings, it is argued that the feeling of shame is sublimated, and the desire for fame is achieved without the destructive and perverse use of violence. It contemplates how Beardsley’s provocative drawings, in particular his illustrations for Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, may have influenced the aesthetic of Frishman’s images explaining perversion as a manic defence against depression. Lastly, it considers the way in which unconscious societal prejudice may lead to confusion between sexual perversion and sexual difference.

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

This article will illustrate sadomasochistic dynamics as they arise within the consulting room and highlight the main function of perversions. Although the term “perversion” can be considered outdated, or worse, pejorative, if used in its original meaning, it remains the most appropriate term to describe the plight of certain patients who suffer from a specific sexualised form of acting out. One aim of the perversion is to attempt to reverse an earlier trauma by turning that passive experience, often not consciously remembered, into an active one. The patient suffering from a perversion replaces unwanted or unbearable historical affects with current actions that are sadomasochistic, sexually exciting, and highly gratifying, albeit temporarily, thereby keeping the patient’s mind far away from the desolation of the initial trauma. At times, the actions patients are driven to for survival are paradoxically life-threatening. I will briefly refer to the difficulties of the countertransference in working with perverse patients.

A conceptual evolution is traceable from early modern classifications of libido nefanda (execrable lust) to early nineteenth-century allusions to ‘perversion of the sexual instinct’, via pluralizing notions of coitus nefandus/sodomiticus in Martin Schurig’s work, and of sodomia impropria in seventeenth- through late eighteenth-century legal medicine. Johann Valentin Müller’s early breakdown of various unnatural penchants seemingly inspired similar lists in works by Johann Christoph Fahner and Johann Josef Bernt, and ultimately Heinrich Kaan. This allows an ante-dating of the ‘specification of the perverted’ (Foucault) often located in the late nineteenth century, and appreciation of pygmalionism and necrophilia as instances of ‘perverted sexual instinct’. In this light, Kaan’s early psychopathia sexualis was less innovative and more ambivalent than previously thought.

Purpose As the clamour within the drug treatment field in the UK – and throughout much of Europe – increases, leading agencies are arguing for a review of the current legislation and a change in focus away from criminal justice and towards a more public health understanding of addiction. Therapeutic communities have found themselves united with many drug users-led campaigns to argue for a wholesale restructuring of the legislative, policy and funding arrangements which recognises the role of recovery-oriented interventions within the mix. Given these on-going debates, it is perhaps useful to understand how the current arrangements were established [1]. Design/methodology/approach In 1850s, the sale of opium – like alcohol – was largely unregulated. It was widely used, in a variety of preparations, by all classes for medical and non-medical purposes. A pennyworth of opium was as likely (perhaps more likely) as a pound of potatoes to find its way into the weekly shopping basket. Findings By the 1920s, the Fu Manchu novels of Sax Rohmer – with their tales of innocent English virgins being seduced into crime and sexual perversion by an evil Chinese genius who lurked within the opium dens of Edwardian Britain – had redefined opium as a drug of the outside, the deadly, an agent in the enslavement of innocence. Originality/value This dramatic change was largely brought about by the introduction of an array of new medications and a move away from traditional “herbal” remedies. This change was accelerated by the experiences of the First World War and underpinned by the print media and laid the foundations of the legislation and policy of the present day.

Inventories of commercial imagery considered obscene or pornographic were first seen in the latter half of the 1900s, in the form of grass-roots initiatives by European public morality protectors L...

This article offers a counterpoint to the predominantly sociological analyses of Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965) by tracing the speculative philosophy of perversion that emerges in his early corpus, nota...

El presente artículo postula que el diálogo feminismo psicoanálisis en torno a la maternidad debe abordarse en un contexto que historice los conceptos y las discusiones en juego. Plantea el lugar de ‘reverso’ del psicoanálisis en relación a las ciencias de la cultura. En ese sentido puntúa en diversos autores el ‘olvido del inconsciente’ al que han acudido para pensar problemáticas socio-culturales, o incurrido en lecturas psicologistas o simplistas de la problemática fálica para enfrentar al psicoanálisis con el feminismo. Por último caracteriza a la maternidad, que más allá de estar determinada por una ideológica ‘maternalista’ ser una práctica de crianza, se considera como una experiencia libidinal y un modo de goce que abre a la problemática muchas veces velada, de la perversión específicamente femenina.

After the publication of his pioneering book Sexual Excitement in 1979, Robert Stoller devoted the last 12 years of his life to the study of the pornographic film industry. To do so, he conducted an ethnographic study of people working in the industry in order to find out how it produced ‘perverse fantasies’ that successfully communicated sexual excitement to other people. In the course of his investigation he observed and interviewed those involved in the making of pornographic films. He hypothesized that the ‘scenarios’ developed and performed by people in the porn industry were based on their own perverse fantasies and their frustrations, injuries and conflicts over sexuality and gender; and that the porn industry had developed a systematic method and accumulated a sophisticated body of knowledge about the production of sexual excitement. This paper explores Stoller's theses and shows how they fared in his investigation.