Necrophilia: A Study of the Psychoanalysis in the Characteristics of the Offenders Who Sexually Molest the Dead Vasudevan Anand Kumar1, Dharma Prashanthi Krishna2,*, Eccleston L.3 1Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Mangadu, Chennai, India 2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Mangadu, Chennai, India 3Ex-Coordinator, Forensic Psychology Program, University of Melbourne, Australia *Corresponding Author: Dr. Prashanthi Krishna Dharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Muthukumaran Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Mangadu, Chennai, India, 600069. E-mail: krshn.dharma@gmail.com, dranandvasudevan@gmail.com
Online published on 8 August, 2019. Abstract Deviance, then may be considered one of the facts of social life. Almost all people, one may be sure, can recall some act of deviance from their own experience, they have committed either knowingly or unknowingly. This paper deals chiefly with the psychoanalysis in the characteristics of one particularly macabre sexual disorder-Necrophilia. Necrophilia, which is the erotic attraction to or obsessive fascination with death and corpses8, as far as we know is the rarest of all the perversions, nevertheless it expresses succinctly a facet of the perverse strategy that is common to all perversions. In its larger meaning this perversion is about the deadening and dehumanization of otherwise humanly alive and therefore threateningly dangerous or unpredictable desires. Especially alarming are those who murder to obtain a body for subsequent sexual violation (e.g. Dennis Nilsen). Researchers dealing with this study on necrophilia have conducted their investigations by psychoanalytic approach of the existing literature and an aggregation of data from the case histories to draw generalizations of the typology of the characteristics of these necrophiliacs. Top Keywords Necrophilia, Psychoanalysis, Characteristics. Top |