Perversity: From Freud to Sotos

[@danielsorenson6981]

Your just as twisted as them and you look and act the part. Your an undercover freak i guarantee it

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Yes you’re 100% correct I’m secretly French.

[@sammymmx]

@@PlaguedbyVisionsyou are handsome and sweet.

[@borb4000]

arent we all

[@bvndit404]

One time I tried to put a doorstopper in my ass w a latex glove and cocoa butter

[@joshuamiller8259]

I appreciate the way you handle topics that would otherwise cause derision. You handle it with an honest cander for those of us who may not actually want to engage with the works.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

It’s sad to me that this has to be appreciated and not just the baseline for all dialogue. 😢 Thank you so much for your support!

[@rileyluce1614]

Hey I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am to have found your channel. I was just looking up disturbing stuff in general like Peter Sotos, I didn’t expect to find someone who made me want to start properly reading again.

[@skulljail.1]

I’m a simple creature: I see Plagued By Visions, I click

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

You are the kind of person who’ll save the world. ❤

[@BaritoneRicardo]

Same!

[@notvcinema8741]

Have you heard of Freud's Dora case study? It was horrible how he treated her. He used to do all kinds of nutty things like gaslight her. Her case study was not only shows how much of a misogynist he was, but was indicative of how women were viewed back then. She eventually quit the sessions. He thought the thing was a failure. I think he saw it as a failure because she wouldn't go along with what he wanted.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Yes I have! I studied Freud quite a bit in college.

[@markgrant100]

Check out article titled Freuds last patient - woman who he liberated from oppressive father 2 weeks before he died

[@lastrights23]

got so excited when i saw this. your examination of “PURE” by sotos was amazing and i’d love to hear your thoughts on more of his work. if there’s a way to get in touch with you, i have a few pdfs of his work that’s getting updated fairly frequently if you’re interested

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much! The offer of Peter Sotos PDFs, I will have to decline. I think I’m on enough lists already. 😂

[@slnd666]

i've been trying to get as much of his work as i can, but i've been having a really hard time with some of his volumes. maybe we can link up?

[@aconsumingvoid]

Also interested in some of the Peter sotos PDFs whenever you have time to send it

[@Voidsfinalstance-gl2tu]

Reply, I would like some sotos pdfs, I can't find much alone besides tool and the proxy CD

[@piperfuriosa]

JUST CLICKED ON THIS BUT HAVE TO COMMENT ON HOW EXCITED I AM NOT ONLY FOR YOUR VIDEO, BUT THIS TOPIC IN PARTICULAR!! Sorry for the all-caps, but, obviously, this video appearing in my feed made me really happy. lol

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you for always being so supportive! ❤🙏🏽

[@MR-cx1mg]

I just started watching your most disturbing books playlist from years ago and I have fallen in love with you and your work! I hope you never stop!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

For as long as there are nasty books to read, the Visions live on!

[@Romvince666]

Saw the word "perversity" and immediately knew this video was made for me!!! Excellent content as usual, Juan!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I really said “ATTENTION: CALLING ALL FREAKS.” 🚨🚨🚨

[@arilith504]

So happy to see a video from you again. This one makes me want to be my nasty little goblin self unapologetically.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Listen, there’s some corporate suit r@pist making the decision to deforest an entire native village to build resorts at this very moment. If watching gay pr0n makes me worse than him according to society, then I don’t wanna be right lmao.

[@YourBoyMcTwizzle]

Dude your videos are so awesome. Thank you for your contribution to the zeitgeist

[@RR-ob8ze]

You’re so eloquent and knowledgeable I’ve fallen in love with your channel! Im excited to watch more of your videos!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much!!! I don’t deserve such compliments. 🥺

[@tinysalmon4]

God mother fucking damn, Juan got a new video! I'm very excited to watch this later!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I can’t believe I sat down and yapped for an hour. Groundbreaking!!!

[@snickerswo1f519]

dude you are seriously underrated! i just found you channel but you’re already on of my favorite who’s uploads i’ll look forward to

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

🙏🏽💖💕💜

[@vitamin_eszett]

Jelinek is definitely a personal favourite for me. I read Lust immediately after finishing The Piano Teacher. It was rough but I'm glad I read it. Thank you for sharing in that suffering and giving this book a mention.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Jelinek is the voice of ugliness incarnate. I stan forever. I have a Piano Teacher tattoo lol.

[@pumpkin857]

I only know about the Haneke film by the same name, I'll have to read Jelinek's work.

[@vitamin_eszett]

@@PlaguedbyVisions that's really cool!!

[@vitamin_eszett]

@@pumpkin857 definitely worth a look

[@vitamin_eszett]

@@pumpkin857 Good luck with her work. I need to delve back into her myself.

[@pickledownrickenomics7619]

Found you very recently and fell in love with your content but was disappointed to see no uploads for a while, excited to see another video from you and hope to see more soon!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I’ll try my best! 😂 Hiatuses are a regular thing here, I’m afraid.

[@nayarithnaynay4930]

I will have to watch this again. Right now, I'd say it's my favourite video of yours (coming from someone who rewatches your "most disturbing books" videos to cook bc that's how mentally sane I am). It'd made me think about a lot of personal stuff with some new perspective. Thank you 🖤

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Truly honored by your words. This support and engagement is why I do this. Tysm. ❤

[@jutsie]

Thank you! Your videos always bring a spark of exploration and curiosity to an otherwise dull and conformist world.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you!!! I truly excel in the lost and rare art of thinking critically a bit about things haha

[@stxnflwr]

Sotos is such a nice looking man! I wonder what is his literature about.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

His work, Pure, is about finding the Purity of the soul through the one savior, Christ. Truly beautiful.

[@downsjmmyjones101]

​@@PlaguedbyVisions Ah, yes. Truly a wonderful gift for my mother.

[@codenameidk206]

Freud also viewed homosexuality as an error. According to his psychosexual stages of development, in the latent stage (4th stage), this stage is where a child's sexual desires are inactive. Here the child is mainly focused on attempting to form non sexual social relationships with the same sex genders. Failure to do so causes a fixation, one of them being becoming a homosexual in the final stage (genital) of development.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Yes, and I as I say in the video, this deviancy is explained by the contradictory “polymorphous perversity” posited as a natural state. It’s why so many qu33r authors use the critique of polymorphous perversity to overturn established notions of heteronormativity.

[@Martin-R335]

Most of the Psychodynamists felt homosexuality, particularly amongst men, a corruption of nature including Jung.

[@brandonwilson380]

im not a heavy reader by any stretch, but your videos popping up in my feed have gotten me to be invested in literature more and more. just want to say excellent work and i look forward to hearing your takes on various books in the future

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

This warms my heart. My only goal is to get more people interested in reading. Thank you for this success story. 🥹🥹🥹

[@Xylus.]

Never seen any of your videos before. I just randomly ended up here after watching some other videos about a few of the writers mentioned here. This was a captivating listen, and I look forward to checking out more of your videos.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Welcome aboard! I truly appreciate your support. 💖💖💖

[@kainewman723]

This is the first vid I saw from you and I haven’t stopped watching since my goodreads list getting big as shit

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

😭🙏🏽💖 my honor and pleasure to spread (😉) the joys of literature!

[@FreelanceBioexorcist]

You’re a blessing in the community

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I’m just the girl who makes the biscuits.

[@Zhuntovany.Kavalir]

As a big fan of de Sade and Bataille, it didnt took me long to click this video lol. Great title.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

You’re on the right channel, friend!

[@rodjaraskolnikov3283]

Great to hear from you again, Juan, and great video, as always :)

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much! ❤❤❤ More to come!

[@MagicYio]

Incredible video, it's always a treat to sit down and listen to what feels like a university lecture about a topic I'm very interested in, while also having the pleasure of hearing you say "perverted gay shit" and "butt stuff" about a dozen times.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Those are phrases to encourage true engagement. 😂❤

[@ssmodk]

I remember when I completely wrote Freud off as useful in any sense, particularly as a basis for the field of psychology, when I was going through a psychology textbook around 30 years ago and had the misfortune of reading his "theories" about how infants masturbate by withholding their feces for as long as possible. This struck me as ludicrous, childish, and the most obvious evidence of him being a sex-obsessed crank who would read something sexual into literally anything and everything he came across. After becoming a parent, it also strikes you how little he must have come into contacts with actual infants. But it's baffling that anyone ever took him seriously.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

@@ssmodk Well, I like to look at Freud’s “usefulness” this way: He was the one who actually attempted to find the human source of madness and abnormality. Where madness was once thought of as definite, Freud sought to prove that there was a logical chain that led to the source of neuroses, etc. Of course, as I say in this video, his conclusions probably have zero basis on actual credible medical theories, but the human imagination that he lent to psychology is, I feel, what’s indispensable.

[@izcariotttt]

Hey, bro. Just discovered your channel today and love it! You're well spoken and researched, look forward to seeing what depravity you explore next!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much for such kind, kind words!!! 😭💖🙏🏽

[@raekwonthachef]

Love you dude! Never regret clicking your vids and think this is your best yet! ❤️😊

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

You're the best! Glad you enjoy the content!

[@jonjuul4276]

hace rato me estaba peleando con un man en twitter acerca de la remuneración del trabajo del hogar. en una parte el man dice que la mujer ahora solo quiere dinero, que ya no es abnegada, que ya no hay amor y dedicación (porque todas ellas obviamente deberían dedicarse a atender a sus maridos y a sus hijos 100%). Y es algo pendejo, un entitlement pero al mismo tiempo una súplica "Por favor sigue amándome, sigue atendiéndome, sigue dándome hijos"

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

De esto es lo que hablan muchas cantantes afroamericanas: Que en el capitalismo del presente, el amor es una transacción dónde las mujeres resguardan poder increíble.

[@carrion-vj1yz]

0:42 As someone who is part French..........hahahahahahahaha, very fitting.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

The Nation of Butt Stuff 🇫🇷❤

[@lizzycorvus5109]

This is an interesting watch for me, esp. from the very specific angle of being trans, religious, and interested in kink. As one can imagine, I have many super-specific thoughts about perversity and sexuality. I think that hyper-focus on sexual morality is politically useful because it doesn't touch private property, and making hetero- and cisnormativity the golden calf of the religious right keeps adherents of their ideology looking away from myriad socially accepted immoralities.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Precisely! Morality is a mask, and “perversity” is start truth that CAN be evil and damaging, but is not one-sided, just as morality!

[@lee4834]

Perversity! My favourite topic! There’s lots of interesting meat to chew on here, great video.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

It is a favorite topic ‘round these parts!

[@dianevanderlinden3480]

Thanks Juan. Great video and love the shirt. You look great.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thanks so much!

[@thomasdavison7184]

Dude you lost a ton of weight. Good for you man you look really good.

[@meatsuit6922]

I would highly recommend the lyrics of Sotos's former band mate, Philip Best, particularly in his project Consumer Electronics. Really brilliant stuff. My personal favorites are the songs Teknon and The Push, and (specifically the Repetition Reinforcement version of) Murder The Masters (the one with the orange blue and black cover.)

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I’ve perused them before. Not impressed.

[@cafecryptic]

Oh I read Philosophy of the Boudoir for GarbAugust, it was crazy!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

For this year’s GarbAugust, you should read Sotos’s garbage zines. 😂

[@cafecryptic]

@@PlaguedbyVisions 👀👀👀 I'm intrigued!!!

[@1917yee]

fanons takedown of freud in black skins white masks is great cuz hes like 'oedipus has nothing to do with colonized people lol stop projecting'. also i love your shirt sm omg

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

To me it seems that diagnosing Freud through his own diagnoses has been a significant part of the labor of postcolonialism lmao.

[@everyvillainislemons7583]

Burp was a great touch

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Appreciate it, friend!

[@ITCamefromthePage]

Was waiting for a clear head and a good cup of coffee to dive into this one. Nothing better for the brain that a Juan video.....hahahahahahaha I was writing this as you burped...it's still accurate.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Sometimes a burp is the only transgressive language available. Also fart sounds.

[@reikowallach2465]

22:40 is that really true? AFAIK these rumors have never been substantiated by anyone claiming to know first hand.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Revisit some of his takes on “Sexual Morality and the Law” and petitions he was involved with at the time for pardoning certain individuals... Accusations are just accusations, but there definitely is always something askew about “consent” in a lot of these French intellectual movements. Again, it’s the considerations of “limits” that form valuable critiques of society, but adults will always presuppose where their cognition is not present (such as in childhood), which can be incredibly dangerous.

[@reikowallach2465]

@@PlaguedbyVisions Well sure, he took critiques of "bourgeois" sexual morality and the carceral justice system too far when he started critiquing age-of-consent laws, it isn't something I'm disputing. But you said that people who knew him corroborated that he was an actual abuser in practice and I haven't heard of such accounts before which is why I'm asking.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

@@reikowallach2465oh, Guy Sorman is who I was thinking of.

[@reikowallach2465]

@@PlaguedbyVisions In that case I think you're mistaken, Sorman did not know him personally and has retracted several statements he made.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

@reikowallach2465 oh, I could very well be. I have always admitted on my channel that my having been a child victim of SA often occludes my ability to forgive even the slightest impulse to justify this activity. It’s why all my reviews are posited at this interjection. It still stands the case, however, that Foucault’s views on child sexuality were skewed and misinformed as it pertains to consent.

[@78deathface]

I’m gonna need to watch this a couple times to soak it all in

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Soak all you need, doll.

[@tylerblue4704]

When I was a child I had some wierd ideas about things and yeah it definitely carried on to later, I think there are definitely some truths to polymorphism

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I have a friend who’s a kindergarten teacher and she’s told me horrific tales about some things even children say and entertain. One has to wonder, though, how much is irresponsible rearing and how much could actually be nascent.

[@asukayin6487]

Sometimes a vid just gets reccomended to you that you feel is like it read your mind

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I’m happy to learn KZbin still recommends my stuff!!! Hahaha

[@kd8663]

I feel like you're what would happen if I poured all my interests, curiosities, and subconscious thoughts into AI and asked it to create the perfect KZbinr for me.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

This is such a kind and thoughtful comment. I’m happy to vibe with fellow transgression enthusiasts.❤

[@shakenbake3249]

THE LEGEND RETURNS!!! ❤❤❤

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I return every new and then to drop a yapfest.

[@Naytone]

I’m curious about the claims on sotos in this video. Are there sources for that quote about him wanting to abuse or for the predator allegations? As someone who can’t figure the guy out, I’m curious as to how you came to such a definitive opinion of him.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Read old interviews from him. There’s PDFs circulating. There’s instances where he taunts that the CP that was on the cover of Volume 2 of Pure isn’t even all the CP that was in his possession. This could all still be an act for provocation, but the very fact that he is known to have possessed and distributed (even if in the form of “art”) actual CP makes him a predator in my eyes, as someone who was also a victim of CP.

[@theultimatedemondim4546]

In all of his publications and maybe mostly in his earliest work, which is freely available in pdf format if one just googles it up and looks around a bit, Sotos insists on being a sexual sadist who indulges mostly in the suffering of others. He also states in multiple publications that the most ideal victim for torture and rape and subsequential murder is a small child: This because the small child has enough personality to suffer greatly and the most innocence to destroy. Peter Sotos is also in favour of cruelty to animals and all other living beings and states this over and over throughout in his published work. Also he always makes this as non-fictional statement of his opinion. It is not part of a fictional story. It is his stated opinion. If others suffer, Sotos faps to it. Besides his confirmed possession of one old child porn magazine and his later boasting of "having had much more" he is also continuing his personal sadism by mocking the parents (mostly the mothers) of children that were abducted, raped and killed. Real mothers of real victims, also, absolutely no fiction. And he continues to do so because this is a crime he can commit within the safespace of his "free speech". All of these things, which you can easily research for yourself, and many more are proof of him being a predator and a sex offender, even if an extremely cowardly one. One that commits his main crime and his torture of others from behind his writing desk. As said, google has most of his older to mid material in pdf if you lok it up. Read at your own risk. To gaze into this mind can make any sane human cry. If someone took all the vileness, the racism, the sadism, the cruelty, the murder and hate of sites like 4chan and other such places and would fill it into one single person, that person would still be a much better person than Peter Sotos is.

[@gjgsssgjgsss]

i really love your videos! i had a question that i think i had after watching your video on unreadable books. you mentioned how you couldn't read Hogg because the voice of the character was just so distant and horrible. how do you know what the voice of the prose is like? i've read some of tampa, and you said the tone was "monstrous", but i couldn't quite grasp that. what should i look for to truly get the sense of the prose of the story?

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I think your inner reading voice just naturally takes on tone via imagination-this can be different for everyone, which is why book reviews are such subjective fun, haha!

[@Jake_Hanrahan]

“Aka a Frenchman” 😂

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

The French are truly a league of their own when it comes to being sick.

[@pallabbeharichaklanabis5595]

No one even Sotos , or Allemann could ever surpass Marquis..

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Surpass in terms of what?

[@pallabbeharichaklanabis5595]

@@PlaguedbyVisions shock, philosophy , unequivalent presence in all imaginations of this genre

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

@@pallabbeharichaklanabis5595 I think Sotos is starting to do that! Which is horrible haha

[@pallabbeharichaklanabis5595]

@@PlaguedbyVisions I think that would be under that shadow only , but Sotos I think wouldn't publish more because of cancel culture , same thing happened with Allemann, we are on the verge of ultimate vanilla personality .... Losing great writers...

[@hatecraft6669]

chance of interviewing Sotos here at the channel? he spoke at the Pompidou once

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Idk that I have much to say to that man lmao

[@hatecraft6669]

@@PlaguedbyVisions 😅

[@alafsalfena6087]

Do you think sotos actually acted on his impulses? Ove read his wiki and it says nothing besides the whole pure debacle. I'd like to look more into his crimes. Where can i find more oj this topic? I do think even though revolting it is possible to write horrible things and just be fictional .

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

There’s an interview where he mentions owning a lot of CP which authorities never found.

[@effloress]

Barking at my screen and typing with my Big Dumb Thumbs - NEW PLAGUED BY VISIONS ❣

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Wtf is that Samsung ass emoji

[@davidsteece4283]

another amazing video

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Glad you think so! Thank you!

[@DHQDisney]

Im curious as to why you came in with a belch 🤔

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Transgressive language

[@everyvillainislemons7583]

If anyone is interested, I am selling my Peter Sotos books “Tool.” and “Selfish Little”

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

And I will say the channel leaving this comment was a great resource for my studies of Peter Sotos!

[@everyvillainislemons7583]

@@PlaguedbyVisions of course! Love this channel, one of my personal favorites on the whole site

[@lastrights23]

what’s your email? i’d like to pick up selfish little sometime.

[@alafsalfena6087]

​@@everyvillainislemons7583 what price range are you thinking? Where can we correspond?

[@spookysoybean1387]

Where are you?

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

@@spookysoybean1387 Right here!

[@dodi-wankenobi]

I guess I‘m here for the polymorphic perversity …?! ❤

[@netram2000]

I'm shocked, I'm disgusted, I'm revulsed, I'm watching the video for a second time... 😉

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

This is a natural reaction.

[@ΧάρηςΚωστόγιαννης]

Do you have a degree in philosophy?

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

BA in English. :)

[@coffinbirthcutie9126]

❤

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

❤❤❤

[@maxpowers802]

How many videos do you need to make on the guy before you learn how to pronounce his name? SO-tus. You can hear him say it in the Howard Stern interview.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Babygirl I’m a Latina. I can pronounce Sotos however I want. People really think they got capital on brown people’s tongues, huh?😂😂😂 FOH

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

BTW it’s not So-tus 😂😭😭 It’s SO-TOSS.

[@maxpowers802]

​@@PlaguedbyVisions bitch I'm darker than you are. And sotos is a greek name anyway. But if you want to go around saying people's name's wrong I guess that's your prerogative as a troglodyte. Him saying it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWPVnZJ9pMt2bqcsi=LqTyL7Lfistcdh8B&t=17

[@maxpowers802]

​@@PlaguedbyVisions bitch I'm darker than you are. And sotos is a greek name anyway. But if you want to go around pronouncing people's name's wrong I guess that's your prerogative as a troglodyte. Him saying it: youtu . be / S2rl_GofC8E?si=LqTyL7Lfistcdh8B&t=17

[@YourBoyMcTwizzle]

I say “SO-TOSE” and im a white dude

[@tropecientasnomeolvides]

papasito

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you! 🌮

[@k4yser]

i really love your content, but i came to realize that the way how racialized every single analysis done by americans has become, is off putting and to me rarely a genuine contribution towards the topics you discuss. Im done hearing about the exploits of the white man.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Ok