Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orgasm, Psychosexual Development, Libido

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1021F/G
• Professor: Frank Cameron

Document Summary

Prohibition maintained by penal law: violating law is criminal. Repression operates as a sentence to disappear: violating law is taboo. Queer sex acts were once prohibited but other points repressed. Twilight fell on victorian society at beginning of 17th century. Still a frankness of sex until victorian era. With regards to sex, silence became the rule . Reported as dropping acid and had a good trip. Thought of as the founder of post-structural thought. Just a hypothesis that a lot of people have bought into. If sex is oppressed than sex becomes a social transgression; situate ourselves as transgressors. If we position ourselves as transgressors, then we set ourselves up for freedom. Sexual instinct: the existence of sexual needs in human beings and animals . Sexual object: the person from whom sexual attraction proceeds . Sexual aim: the act towards which the instinct tends . Before this it was seen as one; freud focuses on deviations.