Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Perversion

In this witty talk, Professor Dany Nobus describes the origins and development of the concept of ‘perversion’ and details the many attempts psychoanalyzts have made to define perversion in a way that reflects the breadth and extent of human sexual practices. He concludes that whilst Freud was perhaps right in thinking that the infant’s psyche is polymorphously perverse, he may have been wrong to conclude that as adults we ever entirely outgrow this aspect of our sexuality.