This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and soc

Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or transgressive sexual acts, but of

Sanchez gives raw and honest insight into why he was vulnerable to the mind control of a cult. He describes how he recovered psychologically, financially, and s

From long before the Trojan War to the ethnic cleansings of our own century, people have often used their potential to treat other human beings as things. It is

Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong wor