The world of perversion: Psychoanalysis and the impossible absolute of desire

The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-247

  Penney, James ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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