» A perversion couldn’t exist separately from its disjunction with sexual intercourse. Using a case of peeping-exhibitionism, we will study this dad-version « as making up for a supposed disharmony in the relation between sexes, through the production of a sign, phallus, which presents the Subject through the opposite sex’s gaze. In accordance with an inhibition to enact the separation from the maternal object, it shows that this sexless version of coïtus depends on failure of the real father to intervene in the symbolic castration complex.»
Archives par mot-clé : Perversion
VAILLANT SOLINS ANNE-MARIE, STÉPHANE BOURCET : REFLECTIONS ON THE CRIMINOLOGICAL IMPACT OF PERVERSE ORGANISATIONS IN ADOLESCENCE
The judicial expert is frequently confronted with the problems of puberty and its transitory organisations of a perverse type. Certain clinical elements enable us to make a prognosis as to the possibility that these will stabilize. But, in all cases, the expert must exercise prudence regarding a diagnosis of perversion.
DARGENT FANNY : SCARIFICATIONS AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS : FROM CRUEL MASOCHISM TO PERVERSE SCENARIOS AS A PARADOXICAL MOVEMENT OF SUBJECTIVATION
A clinical case in an adolescent unit of a hospital demonstrates that scarifications serve two consecutive psychic movements. The first one, related to a cruel masochism, seeks to release a tension that cannot be elaborated and that originates in a real trauma that occurred during childhood. The second movement allows for the actualisation of the trauma through the realisation of perverse scenarios (exhibitionistic in particular) in the transference movements in the unit. Paradoxically, this use of the act-symptom in a perverse context allows to restart the processes of symbolisation and of subjectivation when faced with the risks of manifest psychic disorganisations.
EIGUER ALBERTO : CAN ONE SPEAK OF PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE ?
»The author first considers the analysis of this question by pointing out two of the clinician’s stumbling blocks : the difficulty of speaking about psychic structure in the teenager, given the mobility of his mental functioning ; and the association of certain aspects of the crisis of adolescence with a revival of the infantile polymorphic perverse phase. Secondly, he studies three specific clinical situations : defensive movements of a perverse nature ; sexual and moral perversions which appear at this age ; perverse links where a paedophile, incestuous, corrupting or perverse-narcissistic adult takes as object a teenager, who becomes his victim-accomplice.»
GUTTON PHILIPPE :ADOLESCENCE UNMASKED
»The positions commonly designated as perverse « (Freud) are seldom transitory lasting organisations, definitive of the pubertaire. The author argues that perversions have their origin in the pubertaire. They come from a disavowal of otherness specifically as it is symbolized in the « third party « or parental subject of the transference that ordinarily presides in adolescence. The result of this is the repetition of a brute genitality (or of its derivatives : addiction, certain eating disorders and violent behaviours), which is unelaborated and allied with the drive to control. The emancipation of the Superego submits the adolescent to the collective Superego and to ideologies that confront and judge him.»
BONNET GÉRARD : TRANSITORY PERVERSION IN ADOLESCENCE
»The notion of transitory perversion was used fifty years ago about an adolescent in an article by R. Lebovici that was commented upon and discussed by J. Lacan in his seminar and in his Écrits. The author shows how this notion got lost in the meandering discussions about adult perversion that arose afterwards. However, it is particularly useful now, when there is a tendency to prejudge a subject’s future on the basis of his childhood or adolescent behaviour. We can see that it attests to difficulties in making certain messages prevail over sexual expression in the proper sense, and is a prerequisite for sexual identification. Qualifying the perversion as transitory « is enough to signify that it is not a perversions in the same sense as in the adult, though it nevertheless has much to teach us about adult perversion.»
GADEAU LUDOVIC : RELATION TO THE LAW AND THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY : DISCIPLINARY ACT AND TRANSITIONAL TIME
The author describes a drift in relation to the law and exercise of authority by setting education process and educational response. This opposition is useful to develop educational situations occurring in the vicinity of perversion. The educational responses would operate in the register of contingent reality. They respond to a temporality extemporaneous. The educational act would draw its structuring power of what lies primarily in the symbolic register. It would be governed by a transitional temporality. The author shows that certain intersubjective experiences, when they are subjected to a transitional temporality, give to the educational act its structuring impact.
BONNET GERARD :RITUAL EXHIBITIONISM IN QUESTION
Should the rite necessarily exhibit itself, at the risk of provoking those who do not share the same convictions and inciting violence ? Before answering the question, one must first recall that the rite is a sexual practice in the sense psychoanalysis gives sexuality. It is to ideal sexuality what coitus is to genital sexuality, and pleasure of the anal or oral type is to pre-genital or drive sexuality. This is why the symptomatic practice which is closest to the group rite and which is most able to illuminate it profoundly is not obsessive practice or the behavior of the masses, but perverse practice. The analogies between this and the rite are indeed striking, and many ritual excesses are equivalent to forms of perversion : this is the case of exhibitionism, of which there is so much talk nowadays. The surest way to avoid such overflowing is to push the comparison between the two practices as far as possible, and restore to the rite its own signification, which is to be speech enshrined within codified practice.
Bruno Deswaene : Adolescence and catastrophe
Adolescence is part of a specific approach of time which upheavals the ontogenetic development of the being. In that sense, it becomes a morphogenetical catastrophe that has to be assimilated by the subject. Being a fundamentally structuring stage of development on the psychological level, it takes into account former experiences and points of breaking up. However, pain does not systematically mean breakdown or crisis though it normally partakes to a morbid interpretation.
The preliminary and early encounter with the sexual in the framework of a sexual assault having taken place during the latency period alters the traditional unfolding of the psychological balance. On the social level, such a preliminary emotional experience entails a specific perception of a catastrophic nature and most of the times does it inscribe the experience within a destructive vision, i.e. altering the totality of the elements that are part of the subject’s psychological stability. However, the taking over of this experience of the sexual as a life experience were not to be understood as an involution process or as a damming of the psychological evolution but were to be understood in terms of a stage that would have to be taken an account of in the successive unfolding of the catastrophes inscribed within human ontogenesis, thus connotating more specifically the stage of adolescence, itself being a specific time within the revelation of the sexual attempt. The latter would then become a moment of personalization by the subject of what is to him specifically an intimate catastrophe.
Florence Goldberg: gushing visions of the pubertal scene
This article emphasizes the experience of the emergence of homosexuality during adolescence for writers such as Yukio Mishima and Hervé Guibert and their accounts of it. From the beginning it seems to be a fantasy enactment of the pubertal scene, mixing incest, abjection and the fascination for horror. This text questions the outcome of the pubertal scene and the importance of the drives activated by a sensory and perceptive intensity, that these two writers bring into the foreground throughout their autobiographic writing. Moreover, the article suggests that we distinguish between what is the order of perversion and more precisely the question of a perverse construction.