Perversion the Social Relation
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2i8 ContributorsNina Schwartz is Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. Herbook, Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative, was published in1994 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). This essay is part of a larger projectthat considers contemporary literature and films representing the relations of violenceand desire in situations of social and personal extremity.Slavoj iizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.His numerous other books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Plague of Fantasies,and The Métastases of Enjoyment. He is the editor of the series SIC, Duke UniversityPress.
Accident: A Day's News, 12,189-208alienation, perversion and, 48-53, 65 n.33alloeroticism, Freudian discussion of, 63n.21American Psychological Association, 160,184 n.5American Survival Guide, 18André, Serge, 157 n.27anxiety: perversion and, 53-54, 66 n.41Aristotle: automaton concept and philosophyof, 203-4; Burroughs's interpretationof, 16-17, 23-24, 31-36Augustine (Saint), 36 n.6authority: delusions of, 18, 36 n.4autoeroticism: Freudian discussion of,44-48, 63 n.21automaton: death drive and, 198-99,203-4Bach, Sheldon, 67 n.49baptism: homo-ness and, 163-70; limits ofhomo-ness and, 180-84Bataille, Georges, 11,127-33, *53 n * 2 >historicism of, 128,133-42,154 n.5;homophobia of, 140-42,156 n.22;paradox of faith in Gilles de Rais trialand, 149-52; transference and groupreaction to Gilles de Rais trial, 142-46Bataille, Nfichel, 132,155 n.9,156 n.17, x 5 8n.32Baudrillard, Jean, 16beliefs: Freud's disavowal (Verleugnung)concept and, 69-73; Hopi Katcinarituals and, 73-76; perversion anddisavowal of, 10-14; psychoanalytictheory and, 68-69; r °l e °U m theater,76-77Benedetti, Jean, 158 n.32Benjamin, Walter, 119Bernard, Claude, 91Bersani, Leo, 12,162Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 190-208Bezhin Meadow, 124Bibler, Michael, 12,159-84Bildung: Hegelian concept of, 119Blade Runner, 37 n.8Bloom, Harold, 30Bluebeard tradition, in Breton folklore,153 n.iBlue Velvet, 98-99Bossard, Eugène, 154 n.3Brecht, Bertolt, 113-14
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2i8 ContributorsNina Schwartz is Associate Professor of English at Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Methodist University. Herbook, Dead Fa<strong>the</strong>rs: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative, was published in1994 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). This essay is part of a larger projectthat considers contemporary literature and films representing <strong>the</strong> relations of violenceand desire in situations of social and personal extremity.Slavoj iizek is Senior Researcher at <strong>the</strong> Institute for <strong>Social</strong> Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.His numerous o<strong>the</strong>r books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Plague of Fantasies,and The Métastases of Enjoyment. He is <strong>the</strong> editor of <strong>the</strong> series SIC, Duke UniversityPress.
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