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Sex, and/or Love
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Desire
This seminar analyzes sexual desire through its principal science: psychoanalysis. Because desire is a force rather than an object, this "science of desire" questions the limits of ordinary empiricism by placing questioning — with its attendant themes of trust and doubt, obsession and uncertainty — at the center of existence. Thus, we will reinscribe the reality of reality through the unconscious.
In addition to psychoanalytical texts from Freud, Laplanche, and Lacan, we will also read from scholars Lynn Margulis, Stella Sandford, Tim Dean, Avgi Saketopoulou, Catherine Malabou, Lauren Berlant, Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Irving Goh, alongside selected short stories, poetry, films, and more.
Dates
18 February – 26 August 2026
Time
12AM EST / 5AM UTC
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Neta DAO Academy
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Sessions ✓ Readings Unlocked
- Lydia Davis, "Break It Down," from Break It Down: Stories — 🔒 Register to unlock · 🔒 Register to unlock
- Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Jean Laplanche, selections from Life and Death in Psychoanalysis and Freud and the Sexual — 🔒 Register to unlock
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."
- Lynn Margulis, "Evolutionary Striptease" and "Phallic Psyche," from Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Stella Sandford, "Plant Philosophy and Plant Sex: Aristotle to Albertus" and "What are 'Male' and 'Female' in Botany?," from Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Lucy Cooke, "Introduction" and "The Anarchy of Sex: What is a Female?," from Bitch: On the Female of the Species — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Tim Dean, "Beyond the Couch," "How to Read Lacan," and "Bodies That Mutter," from Beyond Sexuality — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Jacques Lacan, "The Signification of the Phallus," from Écrits — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Avgi Saketapoulou, "To Suffer Pleasure: Limit Experience and Transgression" and "Toward a Theory of Traumatophilia," from Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Film: 🔒 Enroll to unlock film details
- Sigmund Freud, "Femininity," from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Catherine Malabou, Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought — 🔒 Register to unlock
- Film: 🔒 Enroll to unlock film details
- Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love
- Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love
- Film: 🔒 Enroll to unlock film details
- Joan Copjec, "Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason," from Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
- Alenka Zupančič, What IS Sex?