The authors seek to subsidize contributions to a discussion regarding the structural specificity of perversion and its relation to desire and jouissance. Circumscribing the field of perversion from its etiology, delimiting the metapsychological processes able to objectify it, and defining their specific features as opposed to neurosis and psychosis since Freud is not an easy task. By studying this controversial theoretical and clinical construct, the authors emphasize how perversion most often appears as a tenuous border concept, with confusing references in regard to its structural specificity. The proposal is to move beyond the Freudian paradigms, with the backdrop of the dialectic of desire in Lacan. Is there a way that would provide a possible link between desire and jouissance?
Castration; Sexual desire; Sexual deviations