WGS160Y1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.doc
28 Feb 2012
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How did we understand sexuality before freud: biology, science, illness, this is what determined what sexuality constituted before the time of. But still believed psychoanalysis to be a science that would uncover the unknown: we are clear on who we are and how we do things, freud believed that psychoanalysis was a science the science of the human. Freud"s (biological) drives: eros or the life drive: libido, survival, believed in instinctual drives. It gets frustrated and cries when it"s hungry. Infants bite aggressively on the mother"s nipples when they are not getting what they want. This according to freud is the death drive. Stonewall: the detective who was involved with the woman who owned the. Stonewall bar was giving up a lot to be accepted by the community. Finds it unbearable with society"s norms and the punishment which results him in committing suicide. Homosexuals are normal in every other respect and other civilizations. There is something very human about homosexuality.
