Redefinition of Perversion
Keywords:
perversion, sexuality, neosexuality, homosexuality, sublimation, fetishism, narcisistic perversionAbstract
Joyce McDougall’s contributions lead to a new definition of perversion and to a questioning of the relationship between perversion and homosexuality. We think that exclusive homosexual practices and the consecuent suffering derived from them are what allows us to consider them symptomatic or neurotic. But, why perverse? Today there is no homosexual perversion as such but there are people –whether homo or heterosexual– whose ways of relating are perverse. This approach emphasizes the particular forms of relationship –over narcisistic perversion– instead of the choice of a sexual object of the same sex.
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