{"product_id":"the-age-of-perversion-danielle-knafo-9781138849211","title":"The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Winner for 2018 (Theoretical Category)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe have entered the age of perversion, an era in which we are becoming more like machines and they more like us.\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Perversion \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the sea changes occurring in sexual and social life, made possible by the ongoing technological revolution, and demonstrates how psychoanalysts can understand and work with manifestations of perversion in clinical settings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntil now theories of perversion have limited their scope of inquiry to sexual behavior and personal trauma. The authors of this book widen that inquiry to include the social and political sphere, tracing perversion's existential roots to the human experience of being a conscious animal troubled by the knowledge of death. Offering both creative and destructive possibilities, perversion challenges boundaries and norms in every area of life and involves transgression, illusion casting, objectification, dehumanization, and the radical quest for transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume presents several clinical cases, including a man who lived with and loved a sex doll, a woman who wanted to be a Barbie doll, and an Internet sex addict. Also examined are cases of widespread social perversion in corporations, the mental health care industry, and even the government. In considering the continued impact of technology, the authors discuss how it is changing the practice of psychotherapy. They speculate about what the future may hold for a species who will redefine what it means to be human more in the next few decades than during any other time in human history.　\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Age of Perversion provides a novel examination of the convergence of perversion and technology that will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, mental health counselors, sex therapists, sexologists, roboticists, and futurists, as well as social theorists and students and scholars of cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danielle Knafo, Rocco Lo Bosco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138849219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138849211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Danielle Knafo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120955224319,"sku":"9781138849211","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ed58044-9bde-415a-8b6e-781448d2a219.jpg?v=1687417211","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-age-of-perversion-danielle-knafo-9781138849211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}