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- Title
Psychoanalyse und Pädophilie.
- Authors
Schinaia, Cosimo
- Abstract
The term »paedophilia« never appears in the analytical index of Freud's works; nor does it in the works of Melanie Klein, Winnicott or Bion. Moreover, a study I have carried out on the fifteen most popular English psychoanalytical journals reveals that, with the exception of the last few years, very few articles have been written on this subject. The core of my essay is the distinction between paedophilic perversion and paedophilic perversity. The perverse symptomatology acquires a different expressiveness related to the fact that it belongs to neurotic, borderline or psychotic pictures. It is possible to find in perversion (though on different levels) a capacity for representation which is reduced, yet still preserved, if only partially, while the features of sexual perversity are mainly the lack of capacity for thinking and symbolising. The perversity is characterized by the self falling apart.
- Publication
Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse (frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K.), 2015, Issue 70, p177
- ISSN
0075-2363
- Publication type
Article