Abstract

PACHECO FILHO, Raul Albino. Have subjects become perverse in contemporary capitalism?. Stylus (Rio J.) [online]. 2017, n.34, pp. 45-56. ISSN 1676-157X.

Addressed in various ways, the psychoanalytic notion of perversion has become a common resource used by different authors to refer to and explain theoretically the aspects observed in the contemporary capitalist society. This article questions whether it would be theoretically reasonable and conceptually legitimate to assume that it is a massive migration of subjects to what the Freudian and Lacanian thought has formalized as the perverse clinical structure. Could perversion be a symptom of the capitalist society? The negative answer to this question is based on the distinction among: a) the notion of a structural perversion of the speaker, of their enjoyment and drive: "all human sexuality is perverse"; b) the notion of the perverse clinical structure as a "choice" of the subject to deal with the lack (castration) of the Other; and c) the notion of a regime of enjoyment (a discourse) not founded on the renunciation of enjoyment.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; perversion; capitalist discourse; surplus-jouissance.

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