This essay aims at making a brief analysis of Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse's contributions which, in someway, helped to formulate a psychoanalytic theory of social perversion. To this end, we have gone through a number of their works, where key concepts such as sexual economy, authoritarian character, performance principie and repressive de-sublimation were analysed in order to assess to what extent they can be used as operating concepts in the analysis of some perverse social phenomena. The essay also presents critiques and certain solutions proposed by the authors, showing how the paths followed lead to two models of sexual and social utopia.
Perversion; society; psychoanalysis; Freudianism; Marxism