Paraphilic Psychodynamics: Perversions and Neuroses
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories are developed and articulated that challenge the orthodox conception of perversions as the positive counterpart and inverse of neuroses. Within this reorientation, the concept of paraphilic neurosis is revisited, which resembles impulsive neurosis in its psy...
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Departamento de Psicoanálisis de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://psicoanalisisenlauniversidad.unr.edu.ar/index.php/RPU/article/view/283 |
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| Sumario: | Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories are developed and articulated that challenge the orthodox conception of perversions as the positive counterpart and inverse of neuroses. Within this reorientation, the concept of paraphilic neurosis is revisited, which resembles impulsive neurosis in its psychodynamics and in which sexual impulsivity may emerge, considered in relation to compulsive sexual behavior. From different theoretical frameworks, paraphilias are etiologically understood as being predisposed by early childhood traumatic experiences, as it is common to find that the psychosexual development of individuals with paraphilias has been affected by forms of maltreatment within their family environment. For this reason, the psychodynamic perspective fundamentally incorporates the analysis of attachment systems. Attachment insecurities, resulting from family dysfunctions, hinder the development of the subject’s capacity to establish healthy erotic and affective bonds; thus, paraphilias are also analyzed as relationship-related disorders. Another psychodynamic theory addressed, which also involves relational difficulties, conceives paraphilias as attempts by the subject to achieve disinhibition in the face of a situational, neurotic inhibition of desire. |
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