MDCS40440 Human Sexuality and Sexuation

Academic Year 2023/2024

Sexuality has been a fundamental question for psychoanalysis since the publication of Sigmund Freud's radical 'Three Essays on a Theory of Sexuality' in 1905. Not determined exclusively of our 'natural' gendered state, how men or women take up a 'sexed' position is at the core of our question of what it is to be human. This question has fundamental implications for our response to matters where sexuality is central: abuse, suicide among young men, the addictions, masculinity, femininity, transgenderism and gender fluidity. This module works with the key Freudian texts on sexuality including the debate within the psychoanalytic movement in the 1920s and 1930s. Jacques Lacan's concepts of object , of drive and of desire will be explored further following their introduction in the modules in the first year of the programme. The contemporary reading of Jacques Lacan's formulae of sexuation is introduced on this module.

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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

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

35
Specified Learning Activities

20
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

105
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
peer and group work; lectures; critical writing; reflective learning; in-class discussion case-based learning; student presentations 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Essay + non-graded class presentation with graded written report submitted subsequently Varies over the Trimester n/a Graded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students are invited to contact the Programme Leader following receipt of grades to learn from their work

Name Role
Dr Grainne Donohue Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Mr Liam Barnard Tutor
Ms Monica Errity Tutor
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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