The Hatred of the Father in Perversion

It is often difficult if not impossible to talk publicly about one's own clinical cases, especially when this involves talking of intimate details that the psychoanalyst has been entrusted with and is expected to keep to himself. However, nothing prevents him from using his clinical experience to discuss material, clinical or literary, which has already been published, nor from giving his own interpretation of this. In this paper, I will use the case of Oscar Wilde and attempt to give a clinical interpretation of it.…