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001 2005019597
003 DLC
005 20050919083015.0
008 050708s2006 nyu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2005019597
020 $a0791467694 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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 $aAlbany, NY :$bState University of New York Press,$c2006.
263 $a0605
300 $ap. cm.
440 0 $aSUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references 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 $aSexual deviation.
650 0 $aDesire.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005019597.html