[Download pdf] Our Dark Side: A History of Perversion
| #1856778 in Books | Elisabeth Roudinesco | 2009-11-02 | 2009-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.62 x6.00l,.70 | File Name: 0745645933 | 224 pages | Our Dark Side A History of Perversion
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| interesting account of perversion|By sm|This book has a rather slow start, there's nothing very remarkable about the chapters on Sade, Auschwitz etc. The final chapter called The Perverse Society, however is brilliant. A very provocative critique of the now standard claim to surmount all binaries in the postmodern funfare. Most of all, it's an interesting defense of the term "||"In this provocative, timely, and engaging study of famous perverse figures, Elisabeth Roudinesco offers us a ‘dark mirror' for human experience. She persuasively argues that because perversion is a uniquely human activity, it allows us to gain access t
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with it in its own way.
The history of perversion in the West is told here through a study of great emblematic figures of the perverse - Gilles de Rais, the mystical saints and ...
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