ABSTRACT
Perverse sexualities are the result of precocious deviations in child development that become structured as pathological organisations that obliterate the child’s evolutionary potential. Since the early days of psychoanalysis, sexuality has been awarded a central position in the psychoanalytic discipline, so much so that the term was used to denote Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory; however, with the affirmation of the theory of object relations, it has been transformed into a secondary effect of the affective relational bond. The discussion initiated by the French analyst also touched on the issue of the relationship between clinical work and theory. On a number of occasions, Freud stated that the search for pleasure is a characteristic of man that is manifest from the earliest stages of life; even the baby seeks and experiences pleasure, whereas sexuality is fundamental because it stimulates and organises the development of psychic life.
