This collection written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners
explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture politics and society on the notion of
'perversion' which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores
a wide range of issues from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic to transformations in the
relationship between 'transgression' and the law from the epistemic and diagnostic status of
'perversion' as a term to the perverse turn in contemporary politics from representations of
perversion in cultural productions to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices.
Topical and controversial academics and students of psychoanalysis critical and cultural
theory and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge
theoretical debate the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts
and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
