Psychopathology II: Borderline

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Michael Pauly, MD
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC

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May 27, 2022 — Perverse Relatedness

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Richard Tuch, in Murder on the Mind: Tyrannical Power and other Points Along the Perverse Spectrum, gives comprehensive overview of the history of thinking about perversion and perverse relatedness.

In Perverse Female Relating, Andrea Celenza updates old notions of perversion that were based on male development as normative and gives readers a new self-structure to consider: the Objectified Self. She suggests that in contrast to male perverse relatedness, a hallmark of female perverse relating is self-objectification, the aim of which is to control a dangerous subjectivity within.

Tuch, R. (2010) Murder on the Mind: Tyrannical Power and other Points Along the Perverse Spectrum. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 91:141-162.

Celenza, A. (2013) “Perverse Female Relating: The Objectified Self.”  Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49:586-605