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LEADER: 02340cam a22003614a 4500
001 2005019597
003 DLC
005 20080123182136.0
008 050708s2006 nyu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2005019597
016 7 $a101285573$2DNLM
020 $a0791467694 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780791467695
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm61131744
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBF175.5.S48$bP46 2006
082 00 $a150.19/5$222
100 1 $aPenney, James,$d1971-
245 14 $aThe world of perversion :$bpsychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire /$cJames Penney.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2006.
300 $axii, 247 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aSUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aPsychoanalysis.
650 0 $aParaphilias.
650 0 $aDesire.
650 12 $aPsychoanalysis.
650 12 $aSexual Behavior.
650 22 $aLibido.
650 22 $aSexuality.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005019597.html