Is Perversion a Perverted Category? Introduction to the Special Issue

This introductory paper outlines the clinical, ethical, and personal reasons that led to preparation of this French-based issue on perversion. In traditional French psychoanalysis, perversion is conceived as an autonomous psychopathological structure, with a special emphasis placed narcissistic fragility, nullification other, nonhegemonic sexual practices deemed abolishment sex generational differences. The author questions relevance fixed category proposes inclusive approach takes into account social, cultural, intrapsychic, countertransference parameters. Finally, he overviews each article included in highlights epistemological diversity authors’ positions, thus promoting paradigm complexity, which understood heterogeneous hybrid thinking, noncompliant dialectical synthesis.