Swales, S. (2012). Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject. New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n
Encountering a patient who in the initial sessions does not see himself as lacking<\/strong> is by no means an uncommon event. Most often, this type of patient is obsessive<\/span>, and his difficulty in seeing himself as lacking in relation to the therapist can be attributed to his structural reasons for negating the Other and attempting to neutralize the Other\u2019s desire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Correspondingly, the obsessive<\/span> often fears seeing himself as dependent (even in terms of knowledge) upon the therapist Other.<\/p>\n The obsessive<\/span> prefers not to see himself as desiring<\/span><\/strong> because it threatens him with aphanisis and reveals to him that he is a subject lacking in being<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The process of getting the obsessive<\/span> to face his own lack in the process of analysis is referred to as hystericizing his desire, and this involves regularly reminding the obsessive<\/span> of the Other\u2019s presence and desire. 241<\/p>\n However, the perverse patient<\/strong>, as mentioned above, can have a sure answer to the question of identity at the level of jouissance<\/span> while remaining perplexed at the level of desire. The therapist, then, should foster the perverse patient\u2019s curiosity in himself. Why does he desire what and how he desires<\/strong>?<\/p>\n It is thus important for the therapist to highlight manifestations of the pervert\u2019s putting himself into question, for instance by ending a session when a pervert says, \u201cI don\u2019t know why I \u2026\u201d The therapist\u2019s task of inscribing lack into the pervert will be an ongoing one throughout the process of therapy<\/strong>. 242<\/p>\n For instance, a masochistic patient who has undergone several months of therapy might escalate the dangerous practices in which he engages in the (usually unconscious) hope that the therapist\u2019s anxiety will peak and s\/he will enunciate a prohibition of those activities.<\/p>\n In this example, the masochist\u2019s actions put the therapist in somewhat of a bind: if the therapist enunciates a prohibition, s\/he deviates from analytic neutrality and the therapy might suffer from the associated risks (e.g., that the pervert attribute to the therapist a lasting wish that he stop engaging in those especially dangerous masochistic practices such that the pervert will repeatedly demand via his actions that the therapist play the role of lawgiving Other and the treatment will become stuck at the levels of perverse enactment and of demand<\/strong>);<\/p>\n if, on the other hand, the therapist does not prohibit the masochist\u2019s dangerous practices, at the most the masochist might end up getting a serious injury or even getting killed and the therapist might face malpractices charges. At the least, the therapist risks being put into the position (illustrated in Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s 1993 case of Mat\u00edas) of impotent witness<\/strong> of the pervert\u2019s dangerous and\/or criminal activity. 244<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swales, S. (2012). Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject. New York: Routledge. Encountering a patient who in the initial sessions does not see himself as lacking is by no means an uncommon event. Most often, this type of patient is obsessive, and his difficulty in seeing himself as lacking in relation to the … Continue reading “swales pervert”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jouissance","category-lacan","category-objet-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13390,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}