Female Perversion: Scenes and Strategies in Analysis and Culture

After outlining the differences between Freud and Jung on perversion, the author hypothesizes that such a perversion can be understood as a defensive means of achieving totality or pseudo-androgyny. The author presents a case study in which she analyzes the components and dynamic of a perverse transference. She points out the significant role played by a mother who sexually stimulated her daughter in childhood. Lastly, she questions the way our culture makes use of a too-strict definition of the separation of genders, in some cases to mask its fear of the diversity of ways by which an identity is constructed.