1 Introduction: Psychoanalysis in the Bedroom
2 Cruelfictions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Derrida, Mignotte
3 Intimate Cruelties: Perversions, Sexuality and the Human Animal
4 On the Right to Jouissance
5 A Perverse Fascination for Death and Jouissance: Bataille, Lacan and the Anti-social Turn in Queer Theory
6 Perversion After Freud: From the Cruel Father to the Joycean Clinic
7 The Anxiety at the Heart of Perverse Experience: A Clinical Perspective
8 “The Pornography of His Eyes”: A Vignette of Perversion
9 Neoliberalism and Liminality: Perverse Cruelties in the Age of the Capitalist Discourse