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The world of perversion : psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire / James Penney.
| Author/creator | Penney, James, 1971- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. ^A324789 |
| Contents | Part I: Epistemologies of perversion -- Perversity and perversion -- Perversion as power -- Perversion as structure -- Fetishism, sexual difference, homosexuality -- Worlds of perversion : a reader's guide -- Part II: Confessions of a medieval sodomite -- Meet Gilles de Rais -- The spectacle of perversion -- The tragedy of history -- An innocent transference -- Radically evil? -- The perverse sacrifice -- Part III: Cleopatra's nose -- Pascal's modernity -- The tragic absolute -- From sin to infinity -- Ideological state automatons -- A distracted dialectic -- Grace, or the act of faith -- Part IV: This whole world of perversion -- Dialogue and dialectic -- The cynical other -- A revolt against the negative -- Wealth and power -- Hysterical pantomime -- The beyond of perversion -- Part V: The guardian of criminal being -- Lacan contra Hegel -- Ethical beauty -- The real of destiny -- Pleasure unbound -- Suffering for beauty -- Artfully screwed -- Part VI: Concluding (un)queer-theoretical postscript -- Perversion and its discontents -- A dynamic perversion -- The minoritarian temptation -- Hysteria in the shadow of the state -- The paradox of desublimation -- The subject of sex. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005019597 |
| ISBN | 0791467694 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF175.5.S48 P46 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |