Perversion, psychiatry, masculinity, social control, gender, psychiatric diagnosis, deviance, moral judgment, clinical reality
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This document examines the concept of perversion in psychiatry, its historical development, and its relation to social control and masculinity.
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[...] In this perspective, psychiatry is not a simple tool for care: it participates in the normative production of subjectivities, linked to a gendered vision of violence. III. Problématique If one reconsiders the definition (etymological) of perversion with the knowledge acquired in the 19th century (notably thanks to psychoanalysis as well), it is endowed with the 'medical' character that has given it its present connotation. Perversion has allowed linking a concept intimately attached to deviance according to Mazaleigue (2009) - citing indirectly the author Dupré - the upheaval - to the functions of the body and the mind. Construction of the problematics. [...]
[...] The link between deviance and pathology is therefore strengthened. But it's a bit later that Morel develops a morbid anthropology, where the degeneration becomes the dominant explanatory framework for mental illnesses. In 1857, thanks to Morel, ' a new pathological variety, the degenerates, who escape the general law of humanity » sees the light and degeneration then becomes deviation from a primitive human type which is the beginning and end of human development, its norm and its value » (Mazaleigue-Labaste p. 177). [...]
[...] If one believes the historical return made by Goulier et al. (2013), since the French Revolution, the field of psychiatry has evolved between the contribution of care and social control [the authors are all in agreement on this subject (Goulier et al., 2013; Le Bras, 2018; Mazaleigue-Labaste, 2014; Miéville, 1985)]. With Pinel, the mad person is recognized as a patient, their isolation being justified for therapeutic purposes. The Esquirol law (1838) places the asylum at the service of a social order - that shared by the fear of the mad, that which proposes to redefine the responsibility of the act in relation to the pathological damage, that which seeks to establish definitions in relation to the needs of the social order. [...]
[...] In what measure is perversion a clinical and cultural tool for defining, organizing, and limiting masculinity? TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER I. The history of perversion according to Mazaleigue-Labaste. « Psychiatrize » to better reign. The question of moral responsibility. Defining perversions: between pathology and social danger. CHAPTER II. A political and penal origin of perversion. The penal system of the 19th century and the question of perversion. A look back at the political function of psychiatry through perversion. Let's talk feminism. PROBLEMATIC Construction of the problematic. [...]
[...] 'The sexual pervert is a rare individual in the Parisian psychiatric crowd » (Mazaleigue-Labaste p. 203). The media and medical enthusiasm for this (quotation marks) new perception of perversion, in addition to the collective imagination, created a supposed epidemic of perversion, which did not exist. In parallel, the 'autobiographical accounts of the 'perverts' [to be taken with tweezers - whether they are so, name themselves as such, or are redefined have participated in refining the knowledge of sexual subjectivity, as nuances of interiority, the articulation of sexuality to social and family life, and the richness of fantasies have emerged » (Mazaleigue-Labaste p. [...]
