- 178 pages
- English
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About this book
Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives is founded on the premise that paying close attention to what is happening in our internal world can help us understand the rise of sadism in the world of popular culture. Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment appears to be on the rise, an increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. This book acts as a forum in which psychotherapists present psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon of sadomasochism at different stages of the human lifecycle: in childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in later life, and consider its developmental roots.
Over the last half-century, through books, movies, computerized video games and drama, the stories we are being sold as representing aspects of contemporary culture market two commodities: sadism and victory. How might we understand this, and can psychoanalysis help us make meaning of this aspect of human relating?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter One Angels and devils: sadism and violence in children
- Chapter Two Disturbed adolescence and the emergence of sadistic traits
- Chapter Three Working with sadism: an embodied relational approach
- Chapter Four Sexual sadism in ritual abuse: the dilemma of the perpetrator
- Chapter Five Sadism and intellectual disability
- Chapter Six Sexual cruelty in the marital bed: unconscious sadism in non-forensic couples
- Chapter Seven Sadism as manifest in the couple relationship
- Chapter Eight Sadomasochism in the context of family relationships
- Chapter Nine Sadism in later life: an unexpected dynamic?
- Index