The Dark Side Within Us

Twenty years apart, between 1890 and 1914, two heroes of European literature, Dorian Gray and Gregor Samsa, revealed with all their brilliance, against the medicine of his time, the magnitude of the perverse desire in the heart of an unemployed aristocracy that preferred to serve art rather than power; the other has devoted themselves to this field by unmasking the disgusting nakedness at the heart of bourgeois normality.
While Dorian Gray, who is identified with his portrait through his perfect beauty, lives a magnificent life, he is secretly devoted to crime and evil. While preserving the features of his eternal youth, the transformations of his perverted subjectivity are etched on the painting like the emblems of a cursed race. As for Gregor Samsa, on the contrary, his complete transformation into a giant insect reveals the greatness of his soul that is thirsty for compassion, but the hatred he feels at the sight of his body, which has become filth in the family, will first lead him to decay, and then cause him to be stoned and destroyed as filth by his father.
Where does perversion begin and who are the perverts? The main problem this book tries to answer is; By combining the approaches that have been discussed separately so far, not only adding portraits of perverts and the presentation of their major sexual perversions to the analysis of the concept of perversion, but also being able to criticize the theories and practices aimed at examining perversion and perverts developed on this subject, especially in the 19th century.
Elisabeth Roudinesco

"The greater the beauty, the deeper the contamination."
Georges Bataille



Number of Pages: 232

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Say Publications

Number of Pages: 232

First Printing Year: 2013

Language: Turkish