The Pleasures of Excess
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Perversion
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The article's central argument concerns how perversion should not be used pejoratively to condemn non-reproductive sexualities, making the psychoanalytic and philosophical history of this concept essential context
The Pleasures of Excess
One of the big ideas in Linda Williams’s piece on “body genres” in film theory is that perversion should not be used as a pejorative term to condemn some sexualities over others, i.e., to condemn any sexuality that is not reproductive. As Freud (and psychoanalysis) has taught us, sexual desire doesn’t naturally aim at reproduction, but…
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