Perversion

Abstract: Tentative pour preciser le concept de reddition, etude de ses relations ou masochismes et a la soumission. Le masochisme en tant que perversion de la reddition le sadisme en tant que perversion de l'usage de l'objet (Winnicott). Quelques applications possibles du concept de reddition

Abstract: Part 1 An encounter: Wilde and Gide in Algiers. Part 2 Perspectives: some parameters. Part 3 Subjectivity, transgression and deviant desire: becoming authentic Wilde's transgressive aesthetic and contemporary cultural politics re-encounters. Part 4 Transgression and its containment: the politics of containment tragedy and containment. Part 5 Perversion's lost histories: towards the paradoxical perverse and the perverse dynamic Augustine - perversion and privation Othello - sexual diffence and internal deviations. Part 6 Sexual perversion: Freud's theory of sexual perversion deconstructing Freud from the polymorphous perverse to the perverse dynamic perversion, power and social control thinking the perverse dynamic. Part 7 Beleaguered norms and perverse dynamics: homophobia - sexual/political deviance, theories of sexual difference. Part 8 Transgressive reinscriptions, early modern and post-modern: subjectivity and transgression early modern - cross-dressing in early modern England post-modern - on the gay sensibility or the pervert's revenge on authenticity (Wilde, Genet, Orton and others). Part 9 Beyond sexual difference: desire and difference.

Abstract: Behavioural economics and social psychology have shown that humans have all sorts of psychological quirks. Policy makers have become enthusiastic about taking advantage of these quirks through what Thaler and Sunstein call ‘nudges’. This article asks: when would nudging be manipulative? The article has six parts: (1) publicity and transparency, which claims that Thaler and Sunstein's own attempt to deal with evil nudges is inadequate; (2) manipulation and autonomy, where the nature and wrongness of manipulation is connected to a conception of autonomy; (3) the perversion of the decision-making process – a piecemeal approach, which sorts nudges into easy and hard cases and assesses attempts to pick out certain methods, such as temptation, as manipulative; (4) the perversion of the decision-making process – general accounts, which shows why we do not have a clear, complete and correct account of what such perversion is; (5) intentions and nudging's escape clause, where it is shown that governments that nudg...