The Concept of Sexuality in Psychoanalysis — Theoretical and Clinical Aspects

“The Concept of Sexuality in Psychoanalysis — Theoretical and Clinical Aspects”

Saturday Psychoanalytic Seminars
(12 seminars; February–July 2026)

Speaker: Giga Maminashvili

Schedule

Seminars will be held twice a month — on the second and fourth Saturdays at 17:00 from February through July 2026:
February 14 & 28; March 14 & 28; April 11 & 25; May 9 & 23; June 13 & 27; July 4 & 11.

Fees

A. Members and associate members of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Space Association, as well as participants of the annual program — 10 GEL per seminar (full course — 120 GEL).
B. All other participants — 20 GEL per seminar (full course — 240 GEL).

Bank account: GE20TB7815045066300004
Payment reference: “Psychoanalytic Seminars”

Format & Venue

Hybrid format: in-person and online (Zoom).
Address: 34a Kazbegi Ave., opposite European School, 9th floor, office 33.

Target Audience

Open to students, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and professionals from other fields interested in psychoanalysis.

About the Speaker

Giga Maminashvili is a Doctor of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology (Université de Paris-Cité, Sorbonne), Master of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology (TSU, Université Paris VII Denis Diderot), psychoanalyst at Espace Analytique, Associate Professor at Caucasus University, and co-founder and president of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Space Association.

Seminar Cycle Overview

Sexuality and drive are central and fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis. Freud’s discovery of the leading role of sexuality in psychic life coincided with the discovery of the unconscious as psychic reality, radically transforming modern understanding of human nature.

Human sexuality is not biologically predetermined but mediated by language, culture, prohibition, and law. It structures not only neurosis but also interpersonal relations, social bonds, and creative activity.

The seminar series will explore foundational psychoanalytic texts (including Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 1905), post-Freudian developments, and selected contemporary authors. Topics include:

• Infantile sexuality and autoeroticism

• Perversion, masochism, sadism, voyeurism, and exhibitionism

• The Oedipus complex, the paternal function, and symbolic order

• Feminine and masculine sexuality

• Object choice, identification, and identity

• Sexuality in modernity and consumer society

The final two seminars will address sexuality in contemporary structures and the transformation of the Oedipus complex and paternal function today.

The seminar cycle is organized independently within the framework of the Saturday Psychoanalytic Seminars initiative.