SOC 022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud, Oedipus Complex

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 022
• Professor: mary Burke

Document Summary

Extra credit option: art show (on bb) sept 22nd 27th and lecture 21st. Havelock ellis (1859-1939) british sexologist: book on homosexuality: sexual inversion (1896-1897) Distinction between sexual orientation and gender identity : believe that sexual orientation essentially decided gender. E. g. a woman who was considered lesbian she would have been considered more like a male than a female. Sexual inversion was considered the preferred term even though. Homosexual was coined as a term during this time. Makes sexual experience women much more complex than those experiences would be for men. Many differences between the sexual impulse in both genders. Life and death drives: life drive: eros or libido. (a highly sexualized energy). States of sexual development: oral, anal, phallic, (latency,) and genital. Sublimation & repression: you make your actions social acceptable or seem socially acceptable, if they can"t do this, then they repress their feelings. 3 outcomes of castration complex: normal femininity : heteronormative sexual actions and lifestyle.