Study Group: How Is Sex Possible? (Darian Leader)

Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Study Group

"HOW IS SEX POSSIBLE?"

by Psychoanalyst Darian Leader

 3 Sessions: December 12, January 9, January 23

Thursdays 7:30-9:00 pm

Via Zoom

This CPS study group is an invitation and preparation for a lecture by Mr. Darian Leader on “How Is Sex Possible?”  He will speak about the general neglect of research into infantile sexuality, and what we might be able to learn from research into sexual practice outside the analytic field. To prepare for the talk we will read seminal papers by Freud on “Three Essays on Sexuality"

This group is open to all members of the Society, on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a maximum of ten members.  Please register online here by clicking REGISTER.   This is the third study group offering at CPS and part of the “International Series” programming, and it is free to all members of the society and candidates.  There will be no fee at this time as there are no CEU’s, although we may be able to offer them for study groups in the future.

Participants will be asked to read the papers in advance and to kindly commit to joining all three meetings.  These meetings will be held once in December and twice in January for one and half hours and chaired by Dr. Christopher Rigling on Zoom.  Each meeting will be based on an in-depth discussion of 1 -3 papers over the entire three meetings. The papers can be found in Volume VII in the Standard Edition.  They can also be found on the PEP Web. 

Recommended Readings:  

1. December 12 study group: Freud. S. 1905.  “The Three Essays on Sexuality.  Part I. The Sexual Aberrations. SE.VII. pg 135-172
2. January 9 study group:  Freud. S. 1905. “The Three Essays on Sexuality.  Part II:  Infantile Sexuality.  SE VII. pg. 173-206.
3. January 23 study group:  Freud. S. 1905.  “The Three Essays on Sexuality. Part III. The Transformations of Puberty.”  SE. VII pg..207-230

 About the presenter:  

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of several books including: 'Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?'; 'Freud's Footnotes'; 'Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing'; 'Why do people get ill?' (with David Corfield) , 'The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression’, ‘What is Madness?' , ‘Strictly Bipolar’, 'Hands', ‘Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019) and 'Jouissance; Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction', (2021). He writes frequently about contemporary art.