Structure and Perversions Book

	The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Structure Structural Traits. Diagnostic Assessment	5
1	The Notion of Diagnostic Assessment in Clinical Psychoanalysis	7
2	Symptom and Diagnosis	15
3	The Distinction between Symptoms and Structural Traits. Illustration in a Case of Hysteria	23
4	The Notion of Structure in Psychopathology	45
5	Psychic Structures and the Phallic Function	53
Pt. II	The Structural Logic of the Perverse Process	61
6	The Classical Conception of the Perversions	63
7	The Notion of Drive in the Perverse Process	71
8	Disavowal of Reality, Disavowal of Castration, and Splitting of the Ego	81
9	Phallic Identification and Perverse Identification	91
10	The Anchoring Point of the Perversions and the Actualization of the Perverse Process	99
11	The Horror of Castration and the Relation to Women. Defiance and Transgression	107
12	Clinical Example: Parental Ambiguity as Initiating the Perverse Process and the Horror of Castration	115
13	The Relation to Women. Defiance. Transgression. Differential Diagnosis of the Perversions, Obsessional Neurosis, and Hysteria	125
14	Perverse Jouissance and the Complicit Third Party. Secrecy and Action	139
Pt. III	On the Borders of the Perversions	149
15	Structural Proximity of the Psychoses and the Perversions	151
16	Sexuation, Sexual Identity, and Vicissitudes of Phallic Attribution	161
17	Transsexualism and the Sex of Angels	177
	Conclusion: Perversion and Perverse Women	195
	References	201
	Index	205