Perversion

Fiona Ross

• 31 juli 2019
• 9780367325893

Samenvatting:

Describing the development of psycho-analytic thinking on perversion, the author is able to highlight the central differences between the Freudian and Jungian interpretive traditions and to explain why Jungian ideas on perversion have remained underdeveloped, leading to the absence of an available Jungian contribution to the theory of perversion.



Theoretical understanding of perversion is neglected in analytical psychology, and narrowly developed in psychoanalysis, where it traditionally refers to sexual perversion. Etymological exploration of the word "perversion", including its use in religious, moral, sociological and legal contexts, reveals a wider meaning than that adopted in psychoana