ABSTRACT
Mankind and its borders: a critical reading on the contemporary use of the category of perversion. This paper resumes a central issue in the psychoanalytical nosographic discussion concerning the status of perversion and the overlap between psychopathology and moral code. Starting with contemporary readings that emphasize the use of the category of perversion in the critique of the contemporary world, we try to stress the moral value of such use, as well as its theoretical and ethical implications. Then, we show how such use is linked to the demarcation of boundaries for the human being, indicating the need to rethink the category of perversion, having such discussion on what defines humanity as a reference.
Keywords
Perversion; morality; disavowal (Verleugnung); humanity; psychoanalysis