PMID: 16635863Apr 26, 2006Paper

The analyst's excitement in the analysis of perversion

The International Journal of Psycho-analysis
Stephen D Purcell

Abstract

The author believes that unconscious sexual excitement in the transference and countertransference is an especially problematic aspect of the analysis of perverse character pathology and that perverse sexual gratification deserves a more prominent position in the clinical theory of analyzing perversion than that which has been assigned tacitly through analysts' routine focus on the defensive and destructive dynamics of perversion. He presents clinical material from the analysis of a perverse patient that illustrates the role of excitement in the transference perversion established in this analysis; and he asserts that gratifying perverse enactments occurring in the transference perversion can appear not only as conscious or unconscious excitement in the transference but also, at times most clearly, as the analyst's excitement. The author suggests that using a clinical theory that supports the analyst in understanding his excited responses as perverse countertransferences--i.e. evoked excitement complementary to the sexual component of a perverse transference--will assist him in locating and thinking about gratifying, perverse excitement in the transference where it is most usefully analyzed. Finally, he discusses some of the re...Continue Reading

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Mar 29, 2014·The International Journal of Psycho-analysis·Jochem WillemsenStijn Vanheule
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