Case Of Perversion Research Articles

Parental alienation: a case of perversion of motherhood

Parental alienation, a controversial concept used in high-conflict parental disputes, is defined as the child's unjustifiable rejection of one of the parents. The child is affected by the adverse feelings one parent has for the other, causing the child to be strongly aligned with the alienating parent. The alienated parent is then excluded. Although parental alienation can be characterised by different interpersonal dynamics, in this article this highly emotive phenomenon is addressed in the context of Estela V. Welldon's concept of perversion of motherhood. Whereas male perversion is mostly focused on people, parts of people, or things (fetishism) outside the man, female perversion is defined as a focus on the body, and that what belongs in the body, and in the womb, that is the foetus, infant, child. The child becomes a part-object of the mother, leading the mother to have full control over the child in her dispute with the father. The consequences for the child are the severance of the child's relationship with the father and a thwarted sense of reality under a veil of narcissism. This article urges professionals to intervene and understand the underlying dynamics.

Perversão ou "posição perversa": Caminhos para a construção de uma hipótese diagnóstica

From the conceptions of neurosis, perversion, fetish, negation, and the strategy of jouissance, it is intended through the presentation of fragments of a child’s clinical case, to discuss the clinical structure of the subject in question. Would this be a case of perversion or that of a perverse position? The focus of the work, therefore, is both on the construction of the structural diagnostic and the clinical case itself.

Beyond Outcome Measures in Child Protection: Using Feedback to Direct and Evaluate Social Work Practice

There is a consensus in the current literature that the existing use of outcome measures in child protection, applied under the auspices of new public management philosophy, is having a negative impact on social work practice. Process measures used as a proxy for the aims of social work result in perverse case decisions and alienate practitioners from their work. This study used a qualitative methodology employing focus groups in a London borough to explore new ways of judging and improving the quality of social work practice. Following analysis six themes were identified: outcome measures maintain a sense of urgency; outcome measures are not practice orientated; a change of approach to using outcome measures is needed; a vision of good practice should be cultivated; feedback should be used to measure practice; and audits can be used to measure and improve practice. These findings are used to suggest ways in which reforms underway in the UK and around the world can be utilised at a local level to bring policy into more sympathetic alignment with social work practice.

National Emissions Standards, Pollution Havens, and Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

AbstractThe present study shows that the availability of “pollution havens” can negate the effect of national legislation that tightens industrial greenhouse gas emission standards. In the perverse case, a unilateral tightening of said standards in Country A (a country with relatively stringent industrial emission standards) causes a representative multinational firm to emit more units of greenhouse gas in its global production. The article highlights the potential perils of unilateral action on environmental issues that are global in nature.

Human Exceptionalism on the Line

Given the advantage of hindsight, it seems fair to say that Jacques Derrida retained an enduring interest in the question of human exceptionalism throughout his career. Since he was a thinker of origins, we should not be surprised by his forensic attention to what is particular about human genesis—those capacities whose unique achievement and comparative complexity are purportedly without precedent. Our analytical interest in this meditation will focus on the radical break that separates human identity from its others. Does it actually exist, and what are the implications if we fail to find an inaugural signature that authorizes this extraordinary status? Derrida will argue that the reasoning that motors all of western metaphysics rests on the belief that human identity is isolated and irreconcilably alienated. It then makes sense to explain human exceptionalism as a special case of perversion, a unique status which is essentially unnatural. The scene of human arrival, cut adrift “with an ax” (Of Grammatology 121) from its surrounding history and environment, is routinely explained in terms of error, corruption, mistake. I have written elsewhere of Jean Hyppolite’s attempt to indemnify the human as a special case in the face of Derrida’s insistence that nature writes—a suggestion that calls into question the acquisition of language as a unique capacity in human self-definition ( Quantum Anthropologies 16-20). Here we might think of language as patternments of discernment that are biological, environmental, even geological, wherein nature’s metamorphoses manifest the play of legibility, the materialization of systems in potential. Importantly, although Hyppolite is persuaded by Derrida’s argument and concedes nature’s literacy, he balks at the accompanying suggestion that nature could possess agency, intention, or by implication, even forethought. This sense of an organizing center or subjectivity is normally assumed when we refer to reading and writing, and for this reason Hyppolite is understandably puzzled. It seems that nature may write randomly, as if by chance, or even programmatically, for both possibilities could involve a sort of technological facility which, despite complex outcomes, would

Lines in hypergraphs

One of the De Bruijn-Erd?s theorems deals with finite hypergraphs where every two vertices belong to precisely one hyperedge. It asserts that, except in the perverse case where a single hyperedge equals the whole vertex set, the number of hyperedges is at least the number of vertices and the two numbers are equal if and only if the hypergraph belongs to one of simply described families, near-pencils and finite projective planes. Chen and Chvatal proposed to define the line uv in a 3-uniform hypergraph as the set of vertices that consists of u, v, and all w such that {u;v;w} is a hyperedge. With this definition, the De Bruijn-Erd?s theorem is easily seen to be equivalent to the following statement: If no four vertices in a 3-uniform hypergraph carry two or three hyperedges, then, except in the perverse case where one of the lines equals the whole vertex set, the number of lines is at least the number of vertices and the two numbers are equal if and only if the hypergraph belongs to one of two simply described families. Our main result generalizes this statement by allowing any four vertices to carry three hyperedges (but keeping two forbidden): the conclusion remains the same except that a third simply described family, complements of Steiner triple systems, appears in the extremal case.

Is a Unique Cournot Equilibrium Locally Stable?

We consider a homogeneous product oligopoly, where the Cournot equilibrium is regular and unique. We show that for a duopoly, a unique Cournot equilibrium is always locally stable. For a “n” firm asymmetric cost oligopoly a unique Cournot equilibrium is locally stable under very general conditions. The sufficient conditions for local stability of a unique Cournot equilibrium are much less restrictive than what the existing literature suggests. For a symmetric cost oligopoly the unique Cournot equilibrium is almost always locally stable, except for a perverse case. Journal of Economic Literature Classification number: L13.

Dynamic and Long Run Responses of Import Prices to the Exchange Rate in the Asia‐Pacific

Differentials in the estimate of long run import pass-through is investigated for 9 countries of the Asia-Pacific in conjunction with the estimation of the short run dynamics. This is undertaken using the Johansen procedure, which tests for the possibility of multiple cointegrating vectors and then uses this information to estimate a restricted vector error correction specification. The rank tests indicate that 7 out of the 9 countries had long run cointegrating relationships from which estimates of pass-through could be found. The long run import pass-through responses are significantly diverse, ranging from the perverse case of 109% for Pakistan to 26% for Australia. The short run responses also reveal a relatively slow, albeit statistically significant, adjustment of import prices to alterations in the exchange rate, with most of the adjustment in import prices occurring in the periods after the exchange rate shock.

Come as You Are: Sexuality and Narrative

Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of normal heterosexual development; and homosexuality is the nineteenth century's classic case of perversion. Roof builds on Freud to illustrate that a structural understanding of narrative enforces a heterosexual paradigm, a sense of meaning that provides psychological stability for the reader. Looking at film, television, and lesbian novels, Roof explores how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast. Understanding identification as a narrative practice, and narrative as typically heterosexual and reproductive, Roof shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices.Come As You Are marks a significant contribution to lesbian and gay studies, psychoanalytic theory, and feminism.

Monopolistic Competition when Price and Quality are Imperfectly Observable

Consider the symmetric equilibrium of a monopolistically competitive industry in which manufacturers select price and quality to maximize expected profit and consumers maximize utility by conducting costly search among sellers using an optimal sequential search rule. Consumers search among sellers because (i) each consumer idiosyncratically evaluates each seller's quality and (ii) a retailing sector generates variation in the prices consumers pay. Consumers are handicapped in their search because their observations of firms' price and quality levels are noisy. An improvement in price information is represented by an increase in the precision with which consumers observe sellers' prices. Similarly, an improvement in quality information is represented by an increase in precision with which consumers observe sellers' quality levels. An improvement of either type of information may increase or decrease welfare. The perverse case in which improved price information decreases welfare occurs when price competition among firms becomes so intense relative to quality competition that firms select severely suboptimal levels of quality. * A consumer searching among monopolistically competitive sellers may have difficulty accurately observing the price and quality of each seller's product. He must infer from his prior beliefs and noisy observations the true values of the product's price and quality attributes. We show that increasing the precision with which consumers observe an attribute of a product makes the inference problem easier and causes the demand the seller faces with respect to that attribute to become more elastic. The equilibrium level of that attribute changes accordingly, and since the equilibrium levels of price and quality interact, the equilibrium level of the other attribute changes as well. These equilibrium effects can be perverse in two ways. First, if the precision of quality observation is fixed, then improvement in the precision of price observation can reduce welfare. The chain of causation is this: Increasing the precision of price observation causes price to fall. The resulting, smaller price-cost margin induces sellers to reduce quality. De

Mean-variance analysis of portfolios of dependent investments: An extension

This paper extends portfolio-choice theory under risk aversion to the case of dependent investments. It establishes the circumstances in which optimal portfolios of dependent investments will be diversified or completely specialized, and reevaluates earlier statements in this connection arrived at without reference to risk preference. The model, which assumes two risky assets, focuses first on the normal case, in which one asset has both a higher mean and variance of expected returns and, second, on the perverse case, in which one of the two assets is both more profitable and less risky than the other. In the first case diversified portfolios are the rule irrespective of the degree of correlation between assets; completely specialized portfolios may only obtain as corner solutions generally resulting from low-risk aversion; complete specialization obtains when there is high-risk aversion only in the limiting normal case of equally profitable but unequally risky assets. In the second, or perverse case, a wider variety of diversified portfolios than previously thought is found to be optimal. Specifically, diversification may be optimal even if one security has an extremely higher yield and lower variance of returns than the other, provided asset correlation is sufficiently low or negative. There will be complete specialization in the more profitable and less risky asset only if the correlation coefficient between asset returns assumes positive values in an interval that will be narrower or wider depending on the assumed degree of risk aversion and other considerations.

The uniqueness of envelopes in ℵ0-categorical, ℵ0-stable structures

The Classification Theorem for ℵ0-categorical strictly minimal sets says that if H is strictly minimal and ℵ0-categorical, either H has in effect no structure at all or is essentially an affine or projective space over a finite field. Zil′ber, in [Z2], showed that if H were a counterexample to this Classification Theorem it would interpret a rank 2, degree 1 pseudoplane. Cherlin later noticed (see [CHL, Appendices 2 and 3], for the proof) that the Classification Theorem is a consequence of the Classification Theorem for finite simple groups. In [Z4] and [Z5], Zil′ber found a quite different proof of the Classification Theorem using no deep group theory.Meanwhile in [Z3], Zil′ber introduced the notion of envelope in an attempt to prove that no complete totally categorical theory T can be finitely axiomatizable. The idea of the proof was to show that if M is a model of such a T and H ⊆ M is strongly minimal, then an envelope of any sufficiently large finite subset of H is a finite model of any fixed finite subset of T. [Z3] contains an error, which Zil′ber has since corrected (in a nontrivial way).In [CHL], Cherlin, Harrington and Lachlan used the Classification Theorem to expand and reorganize Zil′ber's work. In particular, they generalized most of his work to ℵ0-categorical, ℵ0-stable structures, proved the Morley rank is finite in these structures, and introduced the powerful Coordinatization Theorem (Theorem 3.1 of [CHL]; Proposition 1.14 of the present paper). They also showed that ℵ0-categorical, ℵ0-stable structures are not finitely axiomatizable using a notion of envelope that is the same as Zil′ber's except in one particularly perverse case; [CHL]'s notion of envelope is used throughout the current paper. Peretyat'kin [P] has found an example of an ℵ1-categorical finitely axiomatizable structure.

Scopophilia and Object Loss

The study of a case of voyeuristic perversion and of some previously published cases of simple scopophilia suggests that fear of object loss early in life may be an important factor predisposing one to a propensity for voyeurism. The increased need to maintain visual contact with the object and to incorporate it visually leads to a hypercathexis of the visual function which is at the base of voyeurism. This need later becomes sexualized, while still retaining its pregenital connotations. Although object loss was apparently significant in the case of the patient described in this paper, it is not necessarily a factor in all cases of perverse voyeurism and, when present, may be considered as only one element in its pathogenesis.

Optimal Stabilization Policies and the Government Budget Constraint

This paper examines the implications of the government financing requirement for policies designed to stabilize fluctuations in national income. Because of the government budget constraint (which has not been considered in the control setting hitherto), the control instruments (money, bonds and government expenditure in our case) have to be used in combination. Thus, for example, instead of using government expenditure alone as a control variable, it is necessary to specify how this expenditure will be financed-whether through money creation, bond issues or additional tax revenues. Furthermore, in a stochastic framework with income-linked tax revenues, the budget surplus/deficit is itself random. Accordingly, if two instruments are to be used for stabilization purposes, it is not possible to regard both instruments as control variables: one instrument may be used as the control variable, while the other is used as a residual instrument to balance the budget. (Mixed policies may be devised, in which the control and residual instruments are orthogonal linear combinations of the basic instruments. Such policies may be regarded as linear combinations of the simple policies, for which the control and residual are themselves basic instruments.) As we note in this paper, the efficiency of stabilization policy is not affected by the choice of control variable, but rather by the choice of residual instrument. For simple policies, we find that the use of high-powered money as the residual instrument is certainly superior to the use of government expenditure, and is also superior to the use of bonds except in the perverse case where open-market bond sales are expansionary. The same conclusion holds for mixed policies (considered in the Appendix), when attention is confined to convex combinations of basic instruments. For non-convex combinations, perfect stabilization may be achieved, although a consideration of adjustment costs, neglected in this paper, would clearly modify this result. In addition, we find that, for some of the simple stabilization policies considered, the instruments follow non-stationary processes, despite the fact that national income is itself stationary. This can, under conditions derived later, be true of four of the six simple policies considered here. For the remaining two policies-the use of government expenditure as the control with high-powered money as the residual, and the use of high-powered money as the control with government expenditure as the residual-it is shown that the instruments always follow stationary processes. Thus, except in the case where open-market bond sales are expansionary, the optimal stabilization policy that also generates stationary series for the instruments is the use of government expenditure as the control with high-powered money as the residual. In the exceptional case where bond finance as the residual instrument is optimal from the' point of view of stabilization, we show that its use in conjunction with high-powered money as the control may not generate stationary instruments.

Input Demand Functions for the Profit-Constrained Sales-Maximizer: Income Effects in the Theory of the Firm

Several recent papers (Bear [4], Ferguson [6], Russell [11], Winch [16]) have elaborated upon the accepted analysis of the profit-maximizing firm's demand for inputs (as presented, e.g., in Hicks [8, ch. 7] and Samuelson [12, ch. 4]).2 As one might expect in such a wellexplored field, possible cases have drawn a good deal of attention: when could the demand for an input increase with an increase in its price, or decrease as the firm's output increases (with constant input prices)? Both perfect and imperfect competition in the output market have been considered. After tying up a few loose ends in the theory of the profit-maximizer, this paper extends the analysis to the case of the firm which maximizes sales subject to a minimum-profit constraint. The price-output behaviour of such a firm is familiar from Baumol's work [1, chs. 6 and 7], [2, ch. 13], upon which have followed various models using similar (but usually more general) objective functions, discussing both comparative statics and growth (e.g. [15], [14]). How such a firm would vary its input mix as input prices and output vary seems to have been neglected in this literature, however; so a detailed comparative-statics analysis may be worthwhile. Moreover, we do find interesting differences between the behaviour of the profit-maximizer and that of the profit-constrained sales-maximizer, the most important of which is the appearance of an income effect and the possibility of Giffen inputs, in precise analogy with the theory of consumer behaviour. As a result, the perverse case in the standard theory, while remaining rather odd, now fits into a familiar context; and the relationship between consumer and producer theory appears in a new, perhaps slightly more illuminating light. Finally, we derive relationships between the profit-maximizer's and sales-maximizer's elasticities of demand for inputs. When the present author came upon the results discussed below (in a quite different context-see [10]), he immediately turned to the Foundations and Value and Capital. But Hicks wrote, for example: ... In the case of production, we do not have anything similar to the