Human Sexuality


PSA - 3rd Year
Winter 2006
10:00 AM – 11:20 A.M

*= Available on PEP.

Week One and Two—Theoretical Foundations:

Freud, S. (1905) “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.” SE 7: 123-243. 

Person, E. (2005) “Freud’s Three Essays.” JAPA 53 (4): 1257-82.

Week Three—A Kleinian Perspective

Klein, M. (1921-1945) “The Oedipus complex in light of early anxieties” in Love, Guilt and Reparation. pp. 370-419.

Week Four—Sex and Gender

*Robbins, M. (1996) “Nature, Nurture and Core Gender Identity.” JAPA 44 Suppl: 93-117. 

*Tyson, P. (1982) “A Developmental Line of Gender Identity, Gender Role, and Choice of Object.” JAPA 30:61-86. 

Week Five—Female Sexuality

Klein, M. (1921-1945) “The Effects of Early Anxiety-Situations on the Sexual Development of the Girl in The Writings of Melanie Klein.” The Psychoanalysis of Children: Vol. 2.  pp. 268-325.

*Mayer, E.L. (1985) “Everybody Must Be Just Like Me:  Observations on Female Castration Anxiety.” IJP 66: 331-347.

Week Six—Female Sexuality continued

Torok, M. (1970) “The Significance of Penis Envy in Women in Female Sexuality.” J. Chasseguet-Smirgel, Ed. pp. 135-170.

Week Seven—Masculine/Feminine

Moss, D. (2006) “Masculinity as Masquerade.” JAPA 4  (will be handed out in class)

*Riviere, J. (1929) “Womanliness as Masquerade.” IJP 10:303-313. 

Week Eight—On Female Homosexuality

Freud, S. (1920) “The Psychogenesis of a case of Homosexuality in a Woman.” SE

*Harris, A. (1991) “Gender as Contradiction” Psychoanal. Dial. 1:197-224

Week Nine—Male Homosexuality

*Corbett, K. (1993) “The Mystery of Homosexuality.”. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 10:345-357

*Phillips, S. (2001) “The Overstimulation of Everyday Life.” JAPA 49:1235-1267.

Week Ten—Freud’s Repudiation of the Feminine

*Orgel, S. (1996). “Freud And The Repudiation Of The Feminine.” JAPA 44S:45-67.