ABSTRACT
The status of perversion in psychoanalysis constitutes more a conundrum than a lucid category of firm theoretical suggestions. “Perverse” identification is thereby part of a fantasmatic game with the borders separating the symbolic from the real. The subject’s lack is the cynosure of the analytic process. The psychoanalytic discourse places the object a, the marker of lack, in the dominant position. The analyst embroiders the transferential relationship with the analyzed by centralizing the constitutive lack of the object as a precondition for desire, which brings the subject to the locus of the other. The desire of the extra-ordinary is the other’s jouissance. By taking the position of the object a, the object-cause of desire, the extra-ordinary approximates the real. The other’s anxiety, the exposition of its truth, requests the confinement of the jouissance operating in perversion. Castration has to be imposed because of the contaminating nature of the object’s jouissance.
