Sexuality Autumn Term 2021-22 UPDATED Essay Questions 1.    Critically examine t

Sexuality Autumn Term 2021-22
UPDATED Essay Questions
1.    Critically examine the relevance of Freudian psychoanalysis to the study of sexuality in the contemporary moment.
Reading
Explore some of Freud’s writings on sexuality. Read as much or as little as you feel inclined, perhaps choosing a shorter essay (e.g. ‘Female Sexuality’) to read in its entirety or read a selection of sections from the much longer ‘Three Essays’.
Freud, S. (1905) ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume VII
Freud, S. (1931) ‘Female Sexuality’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume VII
Freud, S. (1933) ‘Femininity’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXII.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Links to additional readings here:
Bailly, L. (2009) ‘Chapter 9: Gender Bending: The Formula of “Sexuation”’. In Lacan. Oxford: Oneworld, pp.146-152
Hsieh, L. (2012) ‘A Queer Sex, or, Can Psychoanalysis and Feminism Have Sex Without the Phallus?’ In Feminist Review 102(1): 97-115.
Irigaray, L. (1994) ‘The Poverty of Psychoanalysis’. In M. Whitford (ed.) The Irigaray Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp: 79-104
Pollock, G. (2008) ‘The visual poetics of shame: a feminist reading of Freud’s
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)’. In Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture. Hove: Routledge, pp. 109-128
The following websites may also be of use:
renderingunconscious.org

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