PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fetishism, Constipation, Libido
25 Feb 2014
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Freud: the accepted definition of sexual instinct / drive (trieb, why it is not acceptable / rational / right, homosexuality / inversion, perversion, neuroses, how to understand sexual drive. Ultimately the answer in why we get sick in various ways, because of our sexual drive. What is the sexual drive: biological, programmed reproduction, sexual (aim) is population (reproduction, sexual object: opposite sex i. Freud says this is not always the case, what is written above, we need to understand how the deviations are. Hermaphroditism sex organs of both sexes, however freud said we are all hermaphrodites to some extent, we all have vestiges of other organs in our bodies. Freud says we all begin with the desire to want to have sex with the opposite sex, this bisexual need, and it eventually gets restrained from one or the other (straight or bi or gay)
