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International Forum of Psychoanalysis 14, 134-137, 2005
The way the drive (Trieb) is lived by the subject in a singular manner identifies the different clinical structures: neurosis, psychosis and perversion. The perverse in his act is determined by the categorical imperative ‘jouissance’: he/she lives for the jouissance; he/she struggles to take possession of it, to organize it and to prolong it (to extend it). Desire, in the perversion, does not emerge as a question about the desire of the Other, as it does in neurosis. It makes its presence as a hard and inflexible response under the form of will of jouissance. What about the real of jouissance in psychoanalysis? How would the analyst listen to the perverse?
International Forum of Psychoanalysis 14, 176-182, 2005
Taking as his starting point the fact that, according to Freudian theory, perversion is inherent to the human being, the author focuses upon an aspect of perversion that has been little discussed: perversion on the other side of the couch, and thereby questions of how, in psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical practice, perverted drive motions may be presented. Such a phenomenon takes various forms: actually being enacted with patients; using psychoanalytic theory as a normative rule; the individual choice of profession and so forth. To exemplify his point of view, the author presents four different expressions of sexuality in Freudian theory: genital sexuality, perverted sexuality, the sexuality of the Ideals and narcissistic sexuality. After differentiating these four sexual expressions, the author shows how each of them may generate perversion in both clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis 15, 19-33, 2006