A complete theoretical system for understanding sexuality beyond behavior, identity, and moral judgment.

 

What This Course Is (and What It Is Not)

Sexuality in contemporary culture is constantly discussed, displayed, and consumed — yet rarely thought in its structural dimension.

The Pathways of Sex is not a sex education program, not a relationship guide, not a therapeutic method, and not a self-help course.
It is a rigorous psychoanalytic course, grounded in Freudian and Lacanian theory, that approaches sexuality as a psychic organization of desire.

In this course, sexuality is understood as:

• a structure of jouissance

• a logic of repetition

• a mode of symbolic inscription (or its absence)

• a privileged site where desire, fantasy, defense, and symptom intersect

This course does not teach how to live sexuality.
It offers the conceptual tools to understand how sexuality operates within the subject.

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The Proposal

This course develops, in depth, the theoretical system presented in the six-volume book series The Pathways of Sex, offering a psychoanalytic cartography of sexuality organized into seven progressive modules.

Each module explores a distinct structural pathway through which sexuality may organize itself in contemporary psychic life — without moral prescriptions, behavioral norms, or simplistic binaries.

All classes are delivered in the form of theoretical monologues, articulated in a clear, rigorous, and conceptually precise language, narrated in the theoretical voice of Jacques Lacan, as if the author himself were guiding the structural reading of sexuality.

 

Course Structure

Module I — Foundations of the Sexual Cartography

Sexuality as a psychic structure of desire

Module II — The Empty Sex

Drive discharge and the absence of symbolic inscription

Module III — The Loving Sex

Affective bond, idealization, and demand

Module IV — The Fantasmatic Sex

Fantasy, body, and the erotic scene

Module V — The Defensive Sex

Control, distance, and the erotics of protection

Module VI — The Transitional Sex

Ambiguity, passage, and non-symbolized affect

Module VII — The Symptomatic Sex

Repetition, suffering, and the return of drive

Each module examines:

• the structural logic of desire

• the organization of jouissance

• the psychic costs, impasses, and stabilizations of each sexual pathway

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Course Format

• Pre-recorded video classes

• Dense, linear theoretical monologues

• Psychoanalytic language, clear and rigorous

• Timeless content (evergreen course)

• Full online access

Workload

Total workload: 60 hours

The workload includes:

• core theoretical classes

• conceptual deepening

• structural articulation between modules

The full workload is formally recognized in the certified version of the course.

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Certification

Students who complete the full course may opt to receive a Certificate of Completion issued by ABRAFP — the Brazilian Association of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

The certificate attests to:

• completion of the full theoretical program

• total workload of 60 hours

• participation in a structured psychoanalytic course

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The certificate does not confer clinical qualification nor replace regulated professional training.
It certifies theoretical psychoanalytic formation.

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Who This Course Is For​

This course is intended for:

• psychoanalysts and psychoanalysts in formation

• students of psychology, philosophy, and related fields

• researchers interested in sexuality and subjectivity

• intellectually engaged readers

• professionals seeking a structural reading of desire

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This course is not intended for those seeking:

• practical relationship advice

• quick solutions

• motivational or self-help content

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Certified Course (ABRAFP)

USD 297 — One-time payment

A complete and formally structured psychoanalytic training program, with institutional certification issued by the ABRAFP — Brazilian Association of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

This certified track is designed for students and professionals who seek not only access to the content, but formal recognition of their theoretical formation.

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What is included:

• Full and permanent access to all seven course modules

• All recorded theoretical classes, delivered in a rigorous monologue format

• Certificate of Completion issued by ABRAFP

• Formally recognized 60-hour workload, suitable for academic and professional records

• Institutional registration of course completion

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This certification attests to the participant’s completion of a comprehensive psychoanalytic program dedicated to the structural study of sexuality, desire, repetition, fantasy, and symptom.

It does not confer clinical qualification nor replace regulated professional training.
It certifies theoretical psychoanalytic formation at an advanced conceptual level.