Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and index.
Preface -- Introduction. the age of perversion -- Theories of perversion and three clinical cases -- Psychoanalysis and perversion -- Guys and dolls : a pygmalian fantasy -- Soul in Silicone (how dolls become real) -- Gals and dolls : fake babies and living barbies -- Widening the scope of perversion : existential and techno-social domains -- Perversion : historical, existential, and social -- Technology and its discontents : the dark side of cyberworld -- The institutionalization of human evil : 1984 as a paradigm for perversion -- Black mirror