ABSTRACT
The site of female perversion is the whole body and, by extension, the bodies of children. When women attack their own bodies, through self-mutilation, selfstarvation or bingeing, they are symbolically wreaking revenge on their own internalised, often cruel and perverse mothers. They identify their own body with the body of the mother. Likewise when they attack their children, they express violence towards a narcissistic extension of themselves:
The main difference between male and female perverse action lies in the aim. Whereas in men the act is aimed at an external part-object, in women it is against themselves: either against their bodies or against objects of their own creation-that is, their babies.
