Uses of Perversity: Commentary on Saketopoulou’s “To Suffer Pleasure”

Tim Dean, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he is also a professor of English. He is the author or editor of six books, including Beyond Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Unlimited Intimacy (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Porn Archives (Duke University Press, 2014).
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