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Perversion, Sexual - in psychology, sexual behavior deemed pathological by its deviation from "normal" sexual desire. The definition of sexual perversion has shifted considerably over time: indeed, it has never been an uncontested category of meaning. For example, homosexual desire has long been stigmatized as sexual perversion among many segments of Western society (and remains so


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    A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing: The Meanings of Emotion (Chap. 9 "Freud and Perversion") » Read Now

    by Jerome Neu. 346 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What is wrong with incest? These...
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    Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Libido Theory ("Perversion" begins on p. 158) » Read Now

    by Humberto Nagera. 194 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...come apart again in the perversions. 3 A childs sexual life is indeed made up...in the case of those perversions which assign a sexual significance to the oral...disgust...
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    Philosophy of Sexuality ("Perversion?" begins on p. 83) » Read Now

    by Don E. Marietta Jr. 216 pgs.

    ...Philosophy of Sexuality Philosophy of Sexuality Don E. Marietta Jr. M.E. Sharpe Armonk, New York...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marietta, Don E. Philosophy of sexuality /...
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    Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Chap. 8 "The Internal Couple and the Oedipus Complex in the Development of Sexual Identity and Sexual Perversion") » Read Now

    by Celia Harding. 204 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives tells a different story about what has happened to sex in psychoanalysis over the past century.In the book, a range of distinguished...
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    Sexualities and Homosexualities (Discussion of sexual perversion begins on p. 15) » Read Now

    by Jaime P. Stubrin. 157 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...and with the so-called sexual "deviations": perversions, neosexualities, paraphilias...widernaturlich with regard to sexuality. perversion noun : perverse sensitivity...Not...
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    Loose Women, Lecherous Men: A Feminist Philosophy of Sex (Chap. 3 "Challenging the Normal and the Perverse: Feminist Speculations on Sexual Preference") » Read Now

    by Linda LeMoncheck. 310 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality and...
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    The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 (Part Three "Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts") » Read Now

    by Angus McLaren. 307 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male."Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their...
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    Sexual Deviations as Seen in Handwriting » Read Now

    by Marie Bernard. 410 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    "Once again Ms. Bernard has brought the science and art of graphology into miraculous and harmonious balance. Her handwriting analyses bypass all social prescriptions and pedagogics. Directly, and without censorship, she penetrates the minds and souls of the writers. She presents a myriad of...
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    Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures ("Perversion" begins on p. 680) » Read Now

    by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner. 986 pgs.

    This Encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many academic endeavours.

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