Perversity and EthicsWilliam Egginton argues that the notion of the ethical cannot be understood outside of its relation to perversitythat is, the impulse to do what one knows and feels is wrong. The allure of the perverse, moreover, should not be understood as merely the necessary obverse of ethically motivated behavior; rather, from the perspective of a psychoanalytic understanding of the ethical, the two drives are structurally identical. This discovery leads the