RELG 271 Lecture : RELG 271 Lecture 4

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: David Jacob Koloszyc

Document Summary

Freud"s critique of modern culture: freud has been accused of being sexist mature woman should not be able to experience orgasm through clitoral, some early feminists were like freud felt that woman were somehow supposed to be different from men in ways in which they see their sexuality women should not enjoy sexuality and just enjoy being mothers, freud was against the idea that homosexuality was a mental illness, the hypocrisy of sexual morality, limited ideas about what is normal and what is pathological, medicine and education reinforce ignorance, nervous disorders and sexual deviance become key social consequence. Sublimation: the process by means of which an aim that had originally been sexual transformed and channeled into another aim (one that is culturally acceptable and/or advantageous, channeling energy into things such as relationships, work, art, music, etc, thinks that sublimation is great for building civilizations because it gets channeled into something productive.