Abstract

CECCARELLI, Paulo Roberto. Ways of understanding perversion. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2011, n.36, pp. 135-148. ISSN 0100-3437.

In this text, the author brings about reflections on the theoretical and clinical research that he has been making for many years on perversion. According to the author, many of the so-called "pathological" manifestations of sexuality represents solutions found by the Ego in the constitution to survive psychically. From this perspective, "perverted" dynamic drives can often represent the only possibility of sexual activity. Through fragments of a clinical case, the author shows the relationship between the direction of the analytical work and the theory used by the psychoanalyst. The author also presents brief considerations on the Freudian positions about perversion to show the different stages of Freud’s theory, and also the way other psychoanalysts have theorized perversion. Then the author raises questions about listening to "perverted patients" and the challenges of such listening that appear in transference / countertransference. The author makes some criticism of the use that has been made of the word perversion: a kind of fetish used to diagnose quickly behaviors that cause distress and surprise, without a deeper exploration of the dynamics of the drives on the "perversion" presented. From there on, the author draws attention to the consequences of limiting the perverse sexuality to a theoretical and clinical reference, to adjust listening to a rigid nosography category. This can produce a clinical numbing as well as theoretical marasmus, which denies the richness of the Freudian discovery.

Keywords : Perversion; Instinctual dynamic; Structure; Sexuality, Normality.

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