1st Edition

Perversion The Erotic Form of Hatred

By Robert J. Stoller Copyright 1986
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.

    Introduction -- Definition -- Definitions -- Impact of New Advances in Sex Research on Psychoanalytic Theory -- Variants: Aberrations That Are Not Perversions -- Perversions: Aberrations That Are Not Variants -- Dynamics: Trauma, Hostility, Risk, and Revenge -- Pornography and Perversion -- Hostility and Mystery in Perversion -- Perversion: Risk versus Boredom -- Symbiosis Anxiety and the Development of Masculinity -- A Crime as a Sexual Act -- Social Issues -- Is Homosexuality a Diagnosis? -- Sex as Sin -- The Necessity of Perversion

    Biography

    J. Stoller, Robert