Pleasure seeking and the aspect of longing for an object in perversion. A neuropsychoanalytical perspective.
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Pleasure seeking and the aspect of longing for an object in perversion. A neuropsychoanalytical perspective. / Berner, Wolfgang; Briken, Peer.
In: AM J PSYCHOTHER, Vol. 66, No. 2, 2, 2012, p. 129-150.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Pleasure seeking and the aspect of longing for an object in perversion. A neuropsychoanalytical perspective.
AU - Berner, Wolfgang
AU - Briken, Peer
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In modern psychiatric classifications the term paraphilia has replaced the term perversion by changing the scope of the definitions from avoided procreation to failures of relationship-aspects of sexuality. Contemporary psychoanalysts also seem less interested in pleasure seeking aspects, which were so important within original Freudian thought, and instead concentrate interpretation on hostility and the history of the representation of objects. This paper discusses the connection between distinct object representations in perversions and attachment theory and neurobiological representations. It will discuss the observation that the neglect of pleasure seeking in perversion often results in a failure to recognise the addiction-like aspects of perversion, which seem to be particularly relevant to modern psychiatric and psychological thinking. The SEEKING-system (Panksepp, 1998) is used to conceptualise a neurobiological basis for pleasure seeking. This SEEKING-system may be "hijacked" by rewards in different forms of addiction as well as in sexual obsessions. The polarity between "drive representation" and "object representation," as created by Freud (1933, 1940a), may correspond to the polarity identified in contemporary thinking between the addictive or compulsive characteristics of sexual gratification (drive representation) and the influence of early object representation on the later ability to integrate instinctual wishes into relationships (object representation).
AB - In modern psychiatric classifications the term paraphilia has replaced the term perversion by changing the scope of the definitions from avoided procreation to failures of relationship-aspects of sexuality. Contemporary psychoanalysts also seem less interested in pleasure seeking aspects, which were so important within original Freudian thought, and instead concentrate interpretation on hostility and the history of the representation of objects. This paper discusses the connection between distinct object representations in perversions and attachment theory and neurobiological representations. It will discuss the observation that the neglect of pleasure seeking in perversion often results in a failure to recognise the addiction-like aspects of perversion, which seem to be particularly relevant to modern psychiatric and psychological thinking. The SEEKING-system (Panksepp, 1998) is used to conceptualise a neurobiological basis for pleasure seeking. This SEEKING-system may be "hijacked" by rewards in different forms of addiction as well as in sexual obsessions. The polarity between "drive representation" and "object representation," as created by Freud (1933, 1940a), may correspond to the polarity identified in contemporary thinking between the addictive or compulsive characteristics of sexual gratification (drive representation) and the influence of early object representation on the later ability to integrate instinctual wishes into relationships (object representation).
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Drive
KW - Personality Development
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Sexual Behavior/psychology
KW - Behavior, Addictive/psychology
KW - Neuropsychiatry
KW - Paraphilias/psychology/therapy
KW - Pleasure
KW - Psychoanalysis/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Drive
KW - Personality Development
KW - Object Attachment
KW - Sexual Behavior/psychology
KW - Behavior, Addictive/psychology
KW - Neuropsychiatry
KW - Paraphilias/psychology/therapy
KW - Pleasure
KW - Psychoanalysis/methods
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
VL - 66
SP - 129
EP - 150
JO - AM J PSYCHOTHER
JF - AM J PSYCHOTHER
SN - 0002-9564
IS - 2
M1 - 2
ER -