The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

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Knafo and Lo Bosco have created a rich description and exploration of perversion, its historical and cultural constructs, the intersection with creativity and technology, and the existential quest for immortality that binds them.The authors contain and frame, with empathy and insight, trajectories of relationships and relating far outside the bounds of contemporary culture and do so with curiosity and compassion.The book will increase the clinician’s understanding of perversion in the 21st century and expand their conceptions and formulations of the specific dynamics so many of their patients struggle with. It portrays a highly relevant and disturbing subject with sensitivity and an emphasis on our shared humanity and potential for individual growth and creativity.

Knafo and Lo Bosco have managed to combine the highest level of scholarship with deep sensitivity, humanity and wit as they present cases of those who live with and love life-size dolls and those who want to be dolls. This is a "good read" and a "must read" for psychologists, psychoanalysts, sociologists and lay persons who are pondering and trying to make sense of the paths technology will bring us to in the years to come. It has been quite a challenge to sort out what is "normal" sexuality from what is "perverted" or "perverse". Their discussion of perversion and perverse is worth the price of the book alone!