Index
abject
Certeau
delight in evil
Huysmans on
jouissance
mystics
Nazis
Oedipus
perversion
physicality
Sonderkommando
and sublime
ablation of ovaries
abnormal
abortion
absolute monarchy, ending
addiction/illness
Adorno, Theodor W.
adultery
Alacoque, Marguerite-Marie
Albert, Jean-Pierre
Algeria, torture in
Amen (Costa-Gavras)
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
DSM
anal penetration, animals trained for
see also sodomy
androzoons
anger
animal experimentation
animal liberation movement
animal rights groups
animality
in children
Derrida
Fontenay
Krafft-Ebing
perverse
philosophy on
Singer
torture
animals
anal penetration of
carnal habitation
classified
as consenting sexual partners
cruelty of
cruelty to
domesticated
dominance over
ethology
fetishized
mutilated
sexuality
training for bestiality
training for torture
treatment of
anorexia
anthropophagy
Antichrist
anti-Christian campaign
anti-hormonal treatment
anti-physical
anti-Semitism
anti-speciesism
anti-vivisection
apes
Apocalypse
Arendt, Hannah
Armagnacs
Artamanen sect
asceticism
Aschenbach
atheism
audiovisual media
Aulagnier, Piera
Auschwitz
aftermath
dog guards
eugenics
Foucault on
Hoess
Levi
victims
auto-eroticism
see also masturbation
auto-genocide
autophagy
avarice
avidosodomy
Aztecs
babies, at risk
Baltic States
Balzac, Honoré de: The Human Comedy
banality of evil
Barras, Paul
barricade
Barthes, Roland
Bataille, Georges
eroticism
executioners
and Foucault
God
Joan of Arc
Rais
on Sade
Bathory, Erzebet (Bloody Countess)
Baudelaire, Charles
Baudrillard, Jean
Beccaria, Cesare
behavioural therapy
behaviourism
Benedict XV, Pope
Benjamin, Harry
Berlin Wall, fall of
Bernard, Claude
Bertrand case
bestiality
Dekkers
Fontenay
as heresy
Krafft-Ebing
sodomy as
torture
training animals for
zoophilia
see also carnal habitation
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bichat, Xavier
bin Laden, Osama
biocracy
biopower
Blanchot, Maurice
Bloch, Iwan
Bluebeard: see Rais, Gilles de
bodily examination, inverts
body
Christianity
deconstructed
fetishized
idolatry of
integrity of
jouissance
of king
and mind
mysticism
policing
sexologists
and soul
suffering
see also mortification of flesh
Boileau, Jacques: Histoire des flagellants
Bonaparte, Marie
Boniface VII, Pope
bonobos
Bonomi, Carol
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boudot, Marc-Antoine
Boureau, Alain
bourgeois society
Bovaryism
brain scans
Brauman, Rony
Braun, Eva
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
Britain, addiction/illness
Broissart, Abbé
brother-predators, community of
bulimia
Burgundians
Butler, Judith
capital punishment
capitalism, post-industrial
carnal habitation
carnivores
Carus, Friedrich August
castration
chemical
denial of
surgical
Catherine de Tours
Catherine of Siena
causality, inverted
Certeau, Michel de
Chapman, George (Jack the Ripper)
Charles, VII, King
Charles VI, King
Charles VII, King
children
animality
babies
body/jouissance
brain scans
corruption
hyperactivity
hysteria
innocence
madness
masturbation
as objects of pleasure
sexuality
victims
see also paedophilia; sexual abuse
Chomsky, Noam
Christianity
see also mystics
circumcision
Clément, Catherine
Clément, Jacques
Clement VII, Pope
clinicians, perverse
clitoris, excision of
clitorophilia
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
cloning
coitus a tergo
Communism
concentration camps
see also gas chambers
conception
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
conditioning theory
confession
Congregation of Penitents
Congress on Mental Hygiene
consenting adults
convent example, human sponge
coprophagy
coprophilia
copulation: see sexual act
Costa-Gavras, Helmer: Amen
Coulmier, François Simonet de
Counter-Enlightenment
Craon, Jean de
creationists
crimes against humanity
crimes against peace
criminality
criminology
Culam, Claudine de
cunnilingus
Dachau
Damien, Pierre
The Damned or the Twilight of the Gods
Darwin, Charles
Darwinism
death drive
debauchery
decriminalization
homosexuality
perversions
sexual perversions
zoophilia
defaecation
see also coprophagy; coprophilia; faecal matter
defilement
degeneracy
dehumanization
Dejours, Christophe
Dekkers, Midas
Deleuze, Gilles
delight in evil
abject
Freud on
humans/animals
Nazis
perversion as
Rais
sublimation
delinquency
Delon, Michel
democracy vs totalitarianism
denial
depressives
Derrida, Jacques
animality
auto-eroticism
barricade
death penalty
rogue states
Descartes, René
desire
for cruelty
jouissance
order of
repression
theory of
desublimation
deviance
sexual
Devil/Faust
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA)
obverse of
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Adorno)
Diderot, Denis
dildos
discipline
diseases, screening for
displopia
divine authority
dog guards, Auschwitz
dogs
domination
Dorian Gray (in Wilde)
drag queens
drives
death drive
drug addiction
Drumont, Edouard
Duchet, Claude
Duehren, Eugène (Bloch)
Dumézil, Georges
dwarfs
ecstasy
Eichmann, Adolf
Arendt on
denial of acts
Hausner on
on Hoess
Eicke, Theodor
Elephant Man
Elephant Man (Lynch)
Ellenberger, Henri F.
Emma Bovary (in Flaubert)
Encyclopaedia of Unusual Sex Practices (Love)
Enlightenment
and Counter-Enlightenment
French Penal Code
inverted
medicine
mysticism
natural laws
perverted
Sade
envy
eroticism
Ésquirol, Jean Étienne Dominique
ethical issues
ethology
eugenics
euthanasia
evil
absolute
banality of
biological roots
natural/cultural
powers of
radical
real
stupidity as
evolutionists
excrement: see faecal matter
exhibitionism
Eysenck, Hans Jurgen
faecal matter
see also coprophagy; coprophilia
fantasy
fatherhood
Faurisson, Robet
Faust/Devil
Federn, Ernst
fellatio
fertility rites
fetishism
body of kings
erogenous zone
in Hugo
poisons
rings
transvestism
fetishization
filth
Final Solution
blaming Jews
Himmler
Hoess
selecting SS
flagellants
flagellation
Henri III
to influence procreation
men/women
as punishment
as ritual
Sade
for sexual satisfaction
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Fontenay, Élisabeth de
Foucault, Michel
on Auschwitz
bourgeois society
History of Madness
History of Sexuality
masturbating child/hysterical woman/homosexual man
perverse people
on Sade
France
and Algeria
anti-Christian campaign
colonial conquests
dechristianized
Penal Code on sexuality
see also French Revolution
Frankfurt School
Freikorps Rossbach
French Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
childhood sexuality
on Darwin
decentred subject
drives
fantasy
hysteria
masturbation
norms
perversion
rat man
and Sade
sado-masochism
sexual abuse
sexuality
sublimation
taboo
Freud Museum
Friedländer, Saul
Fritzsch, Karl
Gall, Franz Josef
gas chambers
Gastaldy, Jean-Baptiste Joseph
gay and lesbian liberation
Gélis, Jacques
gender
as concept
paedophiles
and sex
gender dysmorphia
genealogies
Genet, Jean
genocide
defined
etymology
Hoess
Law, inverted
memorial history
Nazis
and normality
see also Auschwitz
Germany
Artamanen sect
Berlin Wall falling
Kultur
Versailles Treaty
see also Nazis
Gerson, Jean de
Gerstein, Kurt
Gibson, Mel
Gilbert, Gustave
God
Goebbels, Josef
Goebbels, Magda
The Golden Legend (Voragine)
Goldensohn, Leon
good, absolute
Göring, Hermann Wilhelm
Great Schism
Greece, Ancient, homosexuality
greed
Gregor Samsa (in Kafka)
grotesque
guilt, absence of
gypsies
hair shirt
Hall, Carla
Hausner, Gideon
hebephile
Heine, Maurice
Henri III, King
Henri V, King
Henri VI, King
Herbart, Johann Friedrich
Hermaphrodite
hermaphroditism
Herzl, Theodor
heterosexuality
Hilberg, Raul
Himmler, Heinrich
on animals
denial of acts
dog guards
Final Solution
and Hoess
on homosexuality
Lebensborn
suicide
Hirschfeld, Magnus
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler, Adolf
coming to power
Mailer on
megalomania
mental medicine on
pet dog
suicide
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoess, Rudolf
anti-Semitism
army career
Auschwitz
banality of evil
childhood of
classification of detainees
compulsiveness
on Dachau
denial of acts
explaining genocide
Final Solution
gas chambers
gypsies
Himmler on
imprisoned
inverted causality
Jehovah's Witnesses
Levi on
marriage
master race
Rumanian tattooed prisoner
Sachsenhausen
sexual relationship with prisoner
stupidity
in Waffen SS
Homais (in Flaubert)
homeless
homosexual psychoanalysts
homosexuality
APA on
Christianity
Damien on
decriminalized
described
fathering children
Greece, Ancient
Himmler on
mental medicine
as perversion
and procreation
as product of nature
psychiatry
as sex with Devil
stigmatized
Tardieu on
terms for
transsexualism
treatment for
US army
Horkheimer, Max
hormones
horses
Hubris (pride)
Hugo, Victor
Les Miserables
human beings
and animals
classified
extermination
extinction of
inter-species killing
sexuality
human remains, disposal of
Hundred Years War
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
abject
biography of Lydwine
Against Nature
on Rais
hygienics
hyperactivity in children
hysteria
auto-eroticism
children
Freud
women
illness
Immaculate Conception cult
immortality
imprisonment
incest
individualism
infantile sexuality
ingestion of unspeakable substances
Integral Reality
internet pornography
inverts, bodily examination
Iraq, torture
Islamists
Jambet, Christian
Japan
kamikaze pilots
seppuku
Javert (in Hugo)
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesus Christ
Jewish people
blamed
Mengele on
SS officer/musicians
stigmatized
sub-categories
see also Judaism
Joan of Arc
canonized
cross-dressing
Paris besieged
and Rais
trial of
Job, Book of
Jorgese, George
jouissance
abject
abnormality
body
child's
death drive
desire
destructive
as discipline
domination
female
and liberal economy
paedophile
and perversion
real of
Sade
sexuality
will to
Judaism
Kadow, Walter
Kafka, Franz (Gregor Samsa)
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Kant, Immanuel
Keller, Rose
Kelley, Douglas M.
Kershaw, Ian
Kertbeny, Karoly Maria
Khan, Masud
killing
conditioning for
king, body of
kinship, parodied
Kogon, Eugen
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Kristeva, Julia
Kubrick, Stanley: A Clockwork Orange
Kultur
Kürten, Peter (Vampire of Dusseldorf)
La Fontaine, Jean de
Lacan, Jacques
Lang, Fritz
Lanteri-Laura, Georges
Lanzer, Ernst
Lanzmann, Claude
Laqueur, Thomas W.
Launay, Anne-Prospère
Lausiac History
Law
defied
inversion of
natural order
perverted
rule of
transgression
Lazarus Morell (in Borges)
Le Brun, Annie
Le Goff, Jacques
Lebensborn
Leclerc, Yvan
Lemkin, Raphael
Leo XIII, Pope
lettres de cachet
Lever, Maurice
Levi, Primo
on Auschwitz
on Hoess's autobiography
If This be a Man
on Law, inverted
on Lorenz
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
liberal democracy
libertines
body/jouissance
bourgeois society
dark side
debauchery
flagellation
French Revolution
Sade
sexual practices
lineage issues
Loki
Lorenz, Konrad
Lotringer, Sylvère
Louis IX
Louis XV
Love, Brenda B.
Lunier, Ludger
lust
Lydwine of Schiedam
Lynch, David
McDougall, Joyce
madness
children
defined
masturbation
medicalization
Sade
treatment of
zoo visits
Magnan, Valentin
Mailer, Norman
Manach, Jean-Marc
Mandeville, Bernard de
Manichaeism
Marie-Antoinette
Marivaux, Pierre
marriage, same-sex
martyrdom
Jehovah's Witnesses
mortification of flesh
torture
masochism
master race concept
masturbation
adult
auto-eroticism
bonobos
children
dangers of
Freud
madness
Roth
therapeutic devices
see also mental medicine
maternal role, exclusion
Maupassant, Guy de
media
medical gaze
medicalization
Enlightenment
madness
perverse people
sexuality
memorial history
menageries
Mengele, Josef
mental medicine
Bovaryism
Congress on Mental Hygiene
masturbating child/hysterical woman/homosexual
mystics
perversion
positivism
Proust on
transvestism
mentally ill
Merle, Robert
Merrick, John (Elephant Man)
metamorphosis
Michéa, Claude-François
Michelet, Jules
Middle Ages
see also mystics; Rais, Gilles de
Milgram, Stanley
Millot, Catherine
Milner, Jean-Claude
mind/body dualism
Mishima Yukio
missionary position
Monophysite doctrine
monstrosity
Montreuil, Marie-Pélagie de
Montreuil, Renée-Pélagie de
Morgen, Konrad
mortification of flesh
murder
see also genocide; killing
mutilation
mystics
abject
anti-society
body
Certeau
Enlightenment
excesses
filth
ingestion of unspeakable substances
mortification
passion of Christ
psychoanalysis
sacrificial ritual
self-destruction
mythologies
narcissism
natural laws
natural order
Nazis
abject
auto-genocide
biocracy
Brecht on
bureaucracy
criminality
dehumanization
delight in evil
denial of acts
dogs and horses
Enlightenment inverted
erasure of traces
gas chambers
genocide
pathology
perverse structure
racial hygiene
state/perversion
suicide
see also Auschwitz
necrophagy
necrophilia
negationism
negativity
Nemesis
Nero
neurosis
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Nordau, Max
norms
inverted
pathological
science of
sexuality
transgression
Nuremberg Tribunal
obedience to orders
obesity
object-choice perversion
obsessional neurotics, surgical interventions
Oedipus
olfactory power: see smells
Onan
Onania
onanism
orgasm
orgy example, Sade
Other
paedophilia
child victims
drugging children
fantasy
fear of
gender differences
incestuous
jouissance
Krafft-Ebing
legal definition
as perversity
pornography
recidivism
seduction theory
and terrorism
transgressive
treatment for
Paracelsus
paradeisos
paraphilia
parricide
Pascal, Blaise
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
The Passion of the Christ (Gibson)
Pasteur, Louis
paternal institution, abolished
pederasty
Pelati, François
Pellegrin, Nicole
Peraldi, François
performance/profit
perverse people
as absolute other
animality
catalogues of
defined
as elite race
eradication of
exclusion
imprisonment
Law defied
medicalization
notoriety
society's will to punish
stigmatized
perversion
abject
Barthes
clinicians of
creativity
criminality
defined
embodied
etymology
Freud
Hoess
identification of
innateness
jouissance
mental medicine
metaphors of
object-choice
ontological
as part of civilization
and perversity
psychiatry
psychoanalysis
psychology on
psychosis/neurosis/repression
removal of
social model
state
stigmata of
sublimation
see also sexual perversion
perversions
classified
decriminalized
natural phenomenon
of object/aim
psychoanalytic approach
sexology
treatment for
perversity/perversion
pharmacology
Philippe d'Orléans
Philippe le Bel
photographs of torture
phrenology
pica
Pinard, Ernest
Pinel, Philippe
Plautus
Plon, Michel
poisons
Poliakov, Leon
pornography
bestiality
defined
desire
fetishization
internet
paedophilia
public morals offence
zoophilia
positive discrimination
positivism
post-modernism
pre-Oedipal complex
pride
primates
see also apes; bonobos
primatologists
prison population, classified
procreation
profit/performance
promiscuity
prostitutes, male
Proust, Marcel
psychiatry
confessions
homosexuality
on perversion
pharmacology
screening and evaluation
sexual perversion
psychoanalysis
institutional
mysticism
perversion
sexual abuse
Stoller on
psychoanalysts, homosexual
psychology on perversion
psychosis
psychotherapy
public morals offence
queer theory
Quesnet, Marie Constance
race, stigmatized
race pollution
racial hygiene
racial morphology
Raimond, Madame de
Rais, Gilles de (Bluebeard)
Bataille on
besieging Paris
Broissart on
confession
death of
delight in evil
Huysmans on
and Joan of Arc
kidnapping young children
life of
as Marshal of France
as perverse animal
sacrilege
sexual crimes
as soldier
sublime/abject
trial of
wife
rape/killing of children
rapists
Rassinier, Paul
rat man (Lanzer)
real
inescapable
jouissance
Lacan
reality, psychical/material
reality television
recidivism
relics
religious fundamentalism
repression
reproduction: see procreation
republican ideal
revisionist historiography
Rey-Flaud, Henri
Robespierre, Maximilien
rodents
rogue states
Roman circuses
Roth, Philip
Roudinesco, Élisabeth
roués
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rousso, Henry
Royer-Collard, Antoine
Rumanian tattooed prisoner
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold
Venus in Furs
sacrificial ritual
sacrilege
Sade, Donatien, Marquis de
atheism
Bataille on
capital punishment
childhood of
conception of children
The Crimes of Love
criminality
destructive fantasy
Enlightenment
flagellation
Foucault on
French Revolution
Frenchmen, Some More Effort
Freud
imprisonment
jouissance
Juliette
Justine
Law, inverted
libertines
madness
marriage of
in mental asylum
natural laws
nature
19th century writers
The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom
orgy example
Philosophy in the Boudoir
publication of works
reputation
sacrilege
secularization of perversion
sexual act
Silling
sodomy
splitting
textual ecstasy
Sade, Paul Aldonse de
sadism
defined
sexology
totalitarianism
sado-masochism
Saint-Fargeau, Michel Le Peletier de
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy
Saint-Maximin, Arnaud de
scapegoating
scarification
science
bestiality
and divine authority
ethics
and medicine
seduction theory
self-consciousness
self-destruction
self-referential state
self-respect, loss of
self-transcendence
semiology
Sereny, Gitta
sex doctors
sex shops
sex therapists
sex/gender
sexology
body
classifications
perversions
sadism
sexual abuse
sexual abuse
child victims
Freud
psychoanalysis
as soul murder
sexual act
coitus a tergo
missionary position
procreation
Sade
see also bestiality; zoophilia
sexual crimes
sexual excitation, proof of
sexual identity disorder
sexual madness, domesticated
sexual morality
sexual perversion
sexual practices
sexual preference disorder
sexual tourism
sexuality
animals
children
control of
denaturalization of
deviance
French Penal Code
Freud
jouissance
medicalization
metamorphosis
norms
pathological
women
shamanism
Shengold, Leonard
Silling, as monastery of vice
Singer, Peter
animal liberation
speciesism
vegetarianism
zoophilia
single mothers
sins
Sivan, Eyal
sloth
smells
social exclusion
sodomy
of children
Damien
demonized
Rais
Sade
women
Sollers, Philippe
Sonderkommando
soul
and body
debasement
disorders of
murder of
Soulez-Larivière, Daniel
Un Spécialiste
species barrier trangressed
see also bestiality; carnal habitation; zoophilia
speciesism
splitting
SS officers
Stalin, Joseph
Starobinski, Jean
state
perversion
rogue
sexual practices
Steinberg, Sylvie
sterilization
Stiegler, Bernard
stigmata
stigmatization
Stoker, Bram: Dracula
Stoller, Robert
Streicher, Julius
stupidity
subjectivity
sublimation
delight in evil
destructive drive
as elite race
Freud
perversion
sublime
and abject
filth
spirituality
subliminal, as term
suffering
suicide
Emma Bovary
Javert
Nazis
refusing treatment
terrorists
transsexualism
surgical interventions
castration
excision of clitoris
hysteria
obsessional neurotics
transsexuals
surveillance
survival techniques
Süskind, Patrick
taboo
Tardieu, Ambroise
taxonomy
Teiresias
terrorists
Testard, Jeanne
Tétard, Gilles
textual ecstasy
Thénardier (in Hugo)
Theodora, Empress
Thion, Serge
Tiberius
Tissot, Samuel August David
torture
in Algeria
animality
animals trained for
bath of flies
bestiality
martyrdom
media
moral
photographs
rats
total quality production
totalitarianism
Tournier, Michel
transgression
transparency
transsexualism
anti-hormonal treatment
and homosexuality
man-to-woman/woman-to-man
and mystics, compared
psychiatry
Stoller
suicide threatened
surgery
transvestism
Treblinka
Treeves, Frederick
Troyes, Treaty of
twins
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich
United Nations Charter
Urban VI, Pope
urinogenital tracts
urophilia
US army
vagina, desensitized
see also clitoris, excision of
Val, Philippe
Valjean (in Hugo)
vampires
Vandermeersch, Patrick
Vautrin (in Balzac)
vegetarianism
Veggie Pride
Venezia, Schlomo
Versailles Treaty
Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
La Vieille Taupe
virginity
Visconti, Luchino
visions
Voragine, Jacobus de
voyeurism
Waal, Frans de
Wainrib, Steven
Wansee Conference
war crimes
Waterloo, Battle of
Westphal, Karl
whipping
see also flagellation
Wilde, Oscar
Dorian Gray
women
embodying perversion
hysteria
Islamists
jouissance
orgasm
sexuality
sodomy
women religious
Yahweh
Zionism
zooerasty
zoological gardens
zoophilia
see also bestiality
Zyklon B