The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire - Brossura

Penney, James

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ISBN 10: 0791467708 ISBN 13: 9780791467701

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2007

Riassunto

In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose—and indeed everything to gain—by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to perversion and those inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, Penney explores how different assumptions about sexuality have determined the development of contemporary queer theory, and how the universalizing approach to homosexuality in psychoanalysis actually leads to more useful political strategies for nonheterosexual subjects. Having established this theoretical context, Penney focuses on works by Georges Bataille, Blaise Pascal, Denis Diderot, and Jacques Lacan, tracing the implications of various sexual and moral understandings of the term perversion, and illustrating how a psychoanalytic approach to the question of perversion enables politicized readings that are foreclosed by a Foucauldian methodology.

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Informazioni sull?autore

James Penney is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at Trent University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791467708
• ISBN 13: 9780791467701
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 247
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile