Sex, and/or Love

Lecture — 18 February 2026

• Lydia Davis, "Break It Down," from Break It Down: Stories — Enrollment required · Enrollment required

Lecture — 4 March 2026

• Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality — Enrollment required
• Jean Laplanche, selections from Life and Death in Psychoanalysis and Freud and the Sexual — Enrollment required

Note: Essential in sequence: (1) "The Sexual Aberrations," then (2) "The Order of Life and the Genesis of Human Sexuality," then (3) "Gender, Sex, and the Sexual."

Lecture — 8 April 2026

• Lynn Margulis, "Evolutionary Striptease" and "Phallic Psyche," from Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality — Enrollment required
• Stella Sandford, "Plant Philosophy and Plant Sex: Aristotle to Albertus" and "What are 'Male' and 'Female' in Botany?," from Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants — Enrollment required
• Lucy Cooke, "Introduction" and "The Anarchy of Sex: What is a Female?," from Bitch: On the Female of the Species — Enrollment required

Lecture — 27 May 2026

• Tim Dean, "Beyond the Couch," "How to Read Lacan," and "Bodies That Mutter," from Beyond Sexuality — Enrollment required
• Jacques Lacan, "The Signification of the Phallus," from Écrits — Enrollment required

Lecture — 29 July 2026

• Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle — Enrollment required
• Avgi Saketapoulou, "To Suffer Pleasure: Limit Experience and Transgression" and "Toward a Theory of Traumatophilia," from Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia — Enrollment required

Screening — 22 July 2026

1. 22 JulyScreened

Lecture — 12 August 2026

• Sigmund Freud, "Femininity," from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis — Enrollment required
• Catherine Malabou, Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought — Enrollment required

Screening — 5 August 2026

1. 5 AugustScreened