A contemporary definition of perversion is offered that aims to reveal a form of psychic functioning as a quality of being toward others in the external world, translating to a mode of relating toward internal objects, and/or a mode of relating toward one’s body as an object. This quality of being is contrasted with perversion denoting a specific set of behaviors, as in classical conceptualizations. Two schematics illustrate healthy and perverse phenomenological positions (i.e. identifiable within the person’s preconscious or conscious perspective and experience). These positions highlight ways in which perverse modes of experiencing can be depicted, by use of internal psychic positions and the extent to which these are integrated, interpenetrate one another or are truncated and foreclosed. In particular, a perverse internal psychic mode is proposed where affective, embodied, and pre-reflective self-experience is split off or dissociated. The case of Laura is offered as an illustration of a perverse mode of being and a perverse relationship to her body. I also suggest that perverse modes of relating towards others (primarily through objectification) is more common in males whereas the objectification of one’s body is more common in females.

提供了当代的变态定义，旨在揭示一种心理功能形式，即在外部世界中对他人存在的一种品质，转化为与内部对象相关的模式，和/或与自己的身体相关的模式目的。这种存在的品质与表示一组特定行为的变态形成对比，就像在经典概念化中一样。两个示意图说明了健康和反常的现象学立场（即在人的前意识或有意识的观点和经验中可识别）。这些立场强调了可以通过使用内部心理立场以及这些立场相互整合、相互渗透或被截断和排除的程度来描述不正当的体验模式的方式。特别是，提出了一种反常的内在心理模式，其中情感、体现和前反思的自我体验被分离或分离。提供劳拉的案例是为了说明一种反常的存在方式以及与她的身体的反常关系。我还认为，与他人交往的不正当模式（主要是通过客体化）在男性中更为常见，而对自己身体的客体化在女性中更为常见。