Structure and Perversions

Cover
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Contents
......Page 9
The Lacanian Clinical Field:Series Overview......Page 11
Introduction......Page 17
Pt. I	Structure Structural Traits. Diagnostic Assessment......Page 21
1	The Notion of Diagnostic Assessment in Clinical Psychoanalysis......Page 23
2	Symptom and Diagnosis......Page 31
3	The Distinction between Symptoms and Structural Traits. Illustration in a Case of Hysteria......Page 39
4	The Notion of Structure in Psychopathology......Page 61
5	Psychic Structures and the Phallic Function......Page 69
Pt. II	The Structural Logic of the Perverse Process......Page 77
6	The Classical Conception of the Perversions......Page 79
7	The Notion of Drive in the Perverse Process......Page 87
8	Disavowal of Reality, Disavowal of Castration, and Splitting of the Ego......Page 97
9	Phallic Identification and Perverse Identification......Page 107
10	The Anchoring Point of the Perversions and the Actualization of the Perverse Process......Page 115
11	The Horror of Castration and the Relation to Women. Defiance and Transgression......Page 123
12	Clinical Example: Parental Ambiguity as Initiating the Perverse Process and the Horror of Castration......Page 131
13	The Relation to Women. Defiance. Transgression. Differential Diagnosis of the Perversions, Obsessional Neurosis, and Hysteria......Page 141
14	Perverse Jouissance and the Complicit Third Party. Secrecy and Action......Page 155
Pt. III	On the Borders of the Perversions......Page 165
15	Structural Proximity of the Psychoses and the Perversions......Page 167
16	Sexuation, Sexual Identity, and Vicissitudes of Phallic Attribution......Page 177
17	Transsexualism and the Sex of Angels......Page 193
Conclusion: Perversion and Perverse Women......Page 211
References......Page 217
Index......Page 221