Both/and Logic in a Case of Fetishism

The work to be described in this paper grows out of a contemporary psychoanalytic framework based on the approach to long-term treatment outlined by Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst (1901–81). This approach eschews any moralistic condemnation of sexual acts conventionally considered to be “perverse,” and does not in any way take it as a goal to change homosexuals into heterosexuals.