Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding the Freudian account of sexuality and why it begins with the sexual aberrations 2. Critically evaluate the importance of the concepts of castration, perversion and lack in the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the vicissitudes of the drive, the relation to 'the object' and the dialectic of desire in relation to sexuality 4. Demonstrate an understanding of Lacan's formulae of sexuation and their relevance to clinical practice