@article{ref1,
title="Flirting with death: The role of father in containment of sexually perverse behavior",
journal="American journal of psychoanalysis",
year="2013",
author="Koritar, Endre",
volume="73",
number="4",
pages="394-404",
abstract="The author demonstrates, through clinical case illustration, how sexual perversion is linked to traumatic early separation-individuation processes. The illusion of fusion with a seductive and gratifying mother-introject led a young man into the risky business of unprotected gay sex with strangers. The pleasure-seeking child and enabling mother narrative was played out in the transference/counter-transference relationship threatening to pervert the analysis. Authoritative limit setting re-introduced a potent, previously castrated, father figure into the patient's inner world and gave the patient impetus to separate from the undifferentiated mix-up between mother and child, resulting in containment of dangerous sexual behaviors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1573-6741",
doi="10.1057/ajp.2013.24",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ajp.2013.24"
}