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This paper explores perversion beyond its sexual definition, revealing it as a defense mechanism involving seductive manipulation and reversed means-ends logic in relationships, particularly within family dynamics and psychoanalytic transference.

Area of Science:

Psychoanalytic theory
Cultural studies
Social psychology

Background:

Perversion is a complex term laden with social, historical, and theological significance.
Psychoanalysis views perversion as a potential frontier in clinical practice, contemporary art, and culture.
Historical interpretations have narrowly defined perversion sexually or overextended it to various erotic practices.

Observation:

The paper critiques tendencies to deny or misuse the category of perversion.
It addresses paradoxes and difficulties in distinguishing perverse from non-perverse behaviors.
Perversion is analyzed beyond sexual practices to understand deeper psychological dynamics.

Findings:

Perversion functions as a defense against psychotic anxieties and plays a role in transference-countertransference.

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Common features include seductive and bribing aspects, and a reversal of means and ends.

Perverse relationships disguise hatred and suspicion as excitement and false love, often seen in parental dynamics.

Implications:

Understanding perversion requires detaching it from purely sexual contexts.
The concept of the perverse pact, involving parental deception and corruption, is highlighted.
Psychoanalytic treatment can dismantle these pacts, as illustrated in a case analysis.