Otherness in danger of a radioactive sexuality

Abstract

Speaking in otherness leads one to think of contrast, subtle distinction, the establishment of differences and the ability to deal with them. In a social context, this has been a concept increasingly claimed, since we are experiencing a moment of many singular demands and little attention to the collective. From the psychoanalytic point of view, contemplating diversity has a close connection with oedipal and castration experiences, which leads to the field of triangulation. However, other symbolic arrangements wich are not neurosis present themselves in the clinic with their particular challenges. In this paper, the authors make use of a clinical experience to sketch a theoretical understanding of what them call the radioactivity of sexuality in perversion - this configuration that has as a characteristic the blurring of differences, which eventually put at risk the analyst’s otherness.