The objective of this article is to promote a reflection on perversion and its relation with criminality, and to contribute to the comprehension of perversion as a broad mechanism, as a social symptom, and not as something that concerns only the individual. It is adopted the psychoanalytical perspective, in which perversion is understood as a subjective position, and not as a sexual aberration. In the present study, social perversion is viewed as a refuse of the castration, which appears in the social context. The hypothesis is that we live under a social denial, which has two complementary aspects: the negation of the castration by the imperative of the sexual joy, and the contradiction of the social contract by the fallacy of the citizenship. Both aspects generate consequences concerning the nowadays subjectivation.
crime; prison; social perversion