« Perversion and charity : an ethical approach »

The author takes a new look at perversions and at the classical psychoanalytic theories on them, proposing an original criteria for determining them. He does not consider perversions as specific sexual behaviors, nor as a certain type of fantasy: he considers perversion above all an ethical impasse. Every sexual relationship is perverse in which the subjectivity of the other is used as the Ego's instrument of pleasure. Then, it is not a moral flaw, but a strategy transforming a sufferance (especially jealousy) in an enjoyment maneuvering the other as a subject: the perverse masterpiece consists in transmuting the trauma of one's own exclusion from the others' pleasure in an exclusive way to get sexual enjoyment. In this perspective, the author reconstructs the ethical and subjective phenomenology of voyeurism and exhibitionism, sadism and masochism, fetishism, perverse homosexuals and perverse women.