Abstract:

Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, perversion was still an untamed area ripe for psychoanalytic exploration. In exploring perversion, we were free to go beyond the constraints of classical theory about oedipal conflict and ponder where and how sexuality arose, developed, and was used by patients. Perversion, then and now, has been tainted by the sense of something bad, wrong, transgressive. Once we stopped defining perversion as behavior requisite for sexual functioning, we could begin to move toward what could be pleasurable in perversion, especially excitement. And then Laplancheans and Queer theorists would help us reclaim the perverse as valuable, and help us try to accept our patients' intense sexuality. Perverse excitement, rather than perversion, becomes our contemporary fascination. It becomes a way to engage another when ordinary calm caring is unimaginable. Infantile sexuality can be hijacked so as to stir up another when one feels uncared for, disregarded. Perverse excitement can be passed from generation to generation and experienced as something foreign, monstrous, unmanageable—a lust that has to be hidden behind barriers.

摘要：

曾几何时，在 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代，变态仍然是一个尚未被驯服的领域，适合精神分析探索。在探索变态的过程中，我们可以自由地超越有关俄狄浦斯冲突的经典理论的限制，思考性欲在何处以及如何产生、发展和被患者使用。无论过去还是现在，变态都被某种坏的、错误的、违法的感觉所玷污。一旦我们不再将变态定义为性功能所必需的行为，我们就可以开始转向变态中的快乐，尤其是兴奋。然后拉普兰奇主义者和酷儿理论家将帮助我们重新认识反常的价值，并帮助我们尝试接受患者强烈的性欲。反常的兴奋，而不是反常，成为我们当代的魅力。当普通的平静关怀难以想象时，它就成为一种与他人互动的方式。当一个人感到不受关心、被忽视时，婴儿期的性欲可能会被劫持，从而激起另一个人的性欲。反常的兴奋可以代代相传，并被视为某种陌生的、可怕的、难以控制的东西——一种必须隐藏在障碍后面的欲望。