Perversion as Early Violations in Dyadic Relationships

Researches on the phenomenon of perversion as “sexuality” have always provoked mixed reactions in the scientific community. This problem touches the most intimate and painful in a person, touches the depths of the psyche, looking into which you can understand a lot of things, based on the necessary methodology. Many psychoanalysts believe that perversion manifests itself in all of us to one degree or another, therefore its universality does not allow it to be accurately defined, the same you can say about related diagnoses, such as paranoia or obsessive neurosis. The need to specify the concept and expand the methodology of its application is defined by its importance before understanding a certain kind of phenomena and the way of communication on a certain topic, referring to the specific reality of the pervert. Perversion analysis is not so much a matter of deciphering and interpreting fantasies, anxiety, or unconscious defenses presented as perverted sexual activity. This is more a matter of understanding and interpreting transfer phenomena. The pathologies considered in the work, when sexuality is disconnected from its “natural” goals, lead to the creation of combinations in the memory of a person hidden from himself. Access to such bodily circuits is possible only partially and precisely through therapeutic work focused on non-verbal aspects of communication, through understanding and analysis. The dual approach of analyzing the patient’s mental state allows both the analyst and the patient to look at the world through one side of the structural pole, but defines a functional role for each. With the help of simulation interpretation, the field of reality testing expands, therefore it delimits the area of the real in mental reality. Then the most important requirements for communication are fulfilled: tacit acceptance of belonging to the “one world” is achieved, an intersubjective field is set up that identifies each participant, and a bicorporal contact that goes beyond the contact between minds.