What psychoanalysis can elucidate us from the perversion perspective: considerations on ethics, morals and capitalism discourse

Abstract

This work aims to investigate, interrogate and evidence the role of psychoanalysis, supported by its ethics, with regard to interventions that we will call perverse in the social field. Through considerations about polymorphous-perversity and structural perversion, it distances itself from contents that relate perversion as morally unacceptable, since it is intrinsic to sexuality. Starting from studies on morals and ethics taken in general and on psychoanalysis in a special way, elucidated by the relation with perversion, it addresses the similarities between perversion and capitalist discourse. This question implies us since we find in the culture and in the clinic practices that overlap with ethics and limit psychoanalytic performance. Take the example of the attempt to prevent psychoanalysts from accompanying autistic people in France. Ethics approaches perversion since both distance themselves from a universal morality, however, the incessant search for jouissance unites the perverse to the capitalist and distances him from ethics. We will rely mainly on Freud and Lacan, and on authors from the field of philosophy and social sciences. Psychoanalytic discourse is considered a powerful critical tool to lay bare, and even neutralize, the subjective damages of capitalist discourse.