On Trauma, Perversion, and “Multiple Personality”

Brenner, Ira

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“…I think of so‐called ‘perversion’ at the lower levels of ego integration more in terms of perverse mechanisms employed to contain ego fragmentation. (For a case example, see Brenner, 1996.) We would not tend to speak of ‘neurosis’ in a borderline or near‐psychotic personality organization even though symptoms might be grossly and descriptively similar.…”

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The development and organizing function of perversion: The example of transvestism

Meyer¹

2011

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Perversion had been viewed as oedipally determined and in a reciprocal relationship with neurosis. In our widening scope, however, pre-oedipal and traumatic contributions have been increasingly emphasized. While both perspectives represent aspects of clinical reality, the tendency has been to overlook sexual and aggressive drive derivatives, with their related conflicts, object representations, and symbolic enactments, even though they may make significant contributions to the analytic situation. These latter, 'classical' patients have what I consider 'organized' perversions: complex, evolved, neurotic-level, stable psychopathological formations that may be distinguished from borderline or near psychotic syndromes enlisting perverse mechanisms to ward off disorganization. This paper will review Freud's work, briefly consider some recent trends in conceptualizing perversion and perverse mechanisms, characterize organized perversion, and present clinical material to illustrate its evolution, clinical manifestations, and analysis. Transsexualism, overtly similar to transvestism but not functioning as an organized perversion, will serve as a point of contrast.

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The development and organizing function of perversion: The example of transvestism

Meyer¹

2011

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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“…It remains a highly erotized part object with a directly pleasure spending quality. Stoller (1975) interpreted perversion as "the erotic form of hatred" or "the reversal of a defeat in childhood in a triumph in adult live" (p. 3; but see also Brenner, 1996;Eshel, 2005). In Stoller's view castration anxiety does not simply mean anxiety about the loss of one's genitals, but also the loss of one's female or male identity.…”

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Pleasure Seeking and the Aspect of Longing for an Object in Perversion. A Neuropsychoanalytical Perspective.

Berner

Briken

2012

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between "drive representation" and "object representation," as created by Freud (1933, 1940a), may correspond to the polarity identified in contemporary thinking between the addictive or compulsive characteristics of sexual gratification (drive representation) and the influence of early object representation on the later ability to integrate instinctual wishes into relationships (object representation).

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“…Perversity may be found in some compulsions (e.g., kleptomania [Zavitzianos 1971]). In certain conditions, such as multiple personality, it has been hypothesized that perverse sexuality serves as an organizing influence (Brenner 1996).…”

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Perverse Dreams and Dreams of Perversion

Good¹

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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This paper (1) posits the occurrence of perverse dreams as a type of mental phenomenon in the constellation of perverse processes; (2) considers manifest dreams of frank perversion as a type of perverse dream within the class of perverse dreams as a whole; (3) relates the subtype of perverse dreams without manifest perversions to the occurrence of perverse defenses and the development of a perverse transference; and (4) suggests that consideration to perverse dreams in the psychoanalytic process finds application in identifying and differentiating perverse defenses from neurotic and other characterologic patterns; in identifying and tracing the vicissitudes of difficult perverse transference-countertransference constellations; and in furthering perverse patients' recognition and understanding of particularly troublesome and seemingly intractable issues in their psychic makeup. Clinical material illustrates perverse dreams and their usefulness in the often arduous process of analyzing perverse defenses.

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On Trauma, Perversion, and “Multiple Personality”

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

The development and organizing function of perversion: The example of transvestism

The development and organizing function of perversion: The example of transvestism

Pleasure Seeking and the Aspect of Longing for an Object in Perversion. A Neuropsychoanalytical Perspective.

Perverse Dreams and Dreams of Perversion

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