{"product_id":"perversion-ideas-in-psychoanalysis-9781840461886","title":"Perversion (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhilst Freud clearly intended the psychoanalytic term \"perversion\" to be from the moral judgement that the world carries in colloquial use  its relationship to feelings of contempt  triumph  sexual excitement and to shame  revulsion and fear  necessarily make it a troubling concept. To what extent is moral panic about homosexuality and perversion a hysterical outburst from a fragile \"normality\"? The liberalisation of the legal status of homosexuality in Britain and the USA has encouraged attempts to recast perversion as \"neo-sexualities\" or as Foucauldian \"Queer Theory\". As perversion is both a form of sexuality and a form of thinking or belief  it is ubiquitous  in sublimated forms  in the culture surrounding us. It is also a universal component of human sexuality. Having explained the original Freudian concept and the extent to which it is currently used as a diagnostic term  the author goes on to discuss how it can be used in the analysis of contemporary culture and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67920723902517,"sku":"ByrdShop_1840461888","price":248.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781840461886.jpg?v=1794060264","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/perversion-ideas-in-psychoanalysis-9781840461886","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}