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Genders & Sexualities
May 12, 2023 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Back Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Danny Gellersen, LICSW FIPA
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May 12, 2023 — The draw to Overwhelm. Perversion and sexuality amongst the unconventional
[34 pages]
Building off Laplanche, Scarfone and Atlas, which situates us in a more fundamental conceptualization of sex, we now turn our gaze to the unconventional. The excitations of sex and our movement away and towards overwhelm are discussed. Contemporary understandings of perversion, and polymorphous perverse will be discussed. We will be making use of Saketopoulou’s text on “Sexuality Beyond Consent” to lead us.
Saketopoulou, A (2023) Ch 2, “ The Draw to Overwhelm” in Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race and Traumatophilia, pp56-89.
Please select one or two of the “Optional” articles based on your own personal interest.
Optional Reading
Dimen, M. (2005) Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 6:1-18.
If you want to read about disgust’s excitations in sexuality.
Corbett, K. (2013) Shifting Sexual Cultures, the Potential Space of Online Relations, and the Promise of Psychoanalytic Listening. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 61:25-44.
Provides two interesting case studies on app culture/online dating.
Reis, B. (2007) Fetish: A Graphic Essay. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 8:303-311.
Gripping and original article on a straight man’s connection to women’s high heels.