ABSTRACT
Some analysts claim that, unlike neuroses, perversions are incurable, simply because there is nothing to cure. The cure for perversion would then be an integration of the parts of the Self, leading to a single subject where knowledge and desire coincide. If every perversion illustrates a splitting of the ego, as if two different subjects with different forms of knowledge about reality were at play, we can then deduce that the analytic cure aims at removing this split and integrating the two parts. Hence, the splitting of the ego or Self is not only something that accompanies pathologies and perversions, it also promotes creativity and tolerance. In practice, analysts only come into analytical contact with neurotic perverts, or with neurotics who indulge in perverse fantasies and acts. The analytic process leads subjects to abandon their perverse acts and fantasies in so far as it has the characteristics of mourning and weaning.
