What role does fantasy play in consent?
In this Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis seminar, Dr. Joshua Ehrlich explores fantasy as a central but often overlooked force in human behavior, sexuality, and relationships.
Rather than treating consent only as a legal or moral issue, Dr. Ehrlich invites us to think about it psychologically: What happens when fantasy remains private? What changes when fantasy moves into the world? And how do vulnerability, power, control, shame, longing, and separateness shape the way people relate to one another?
The conversation moves through childhood play, sports fandom, celebrity worship, anxiety, sexual entitlement, men’s behavior, pornography, emerging technologies, and the fantasy of the “omni-available woman.”
This seminar is for clinicians, psychoanalysts, therapists, students, and serious readers interested in how psychoanalytic thinking can deepen contemporary conversations about consent, fantasy, sexuality, and relational life.
Purchase the full video through the Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis shop:
https://www.letstalkpsychoanalysis.com/shop
#Psychoanalysis #Fantasy #Consent #Psychotherapy #MensSexuality #ClinicalThinking #MentalHealthProfessionals
What role does fantasy play in consent?
In this Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis seminar, Dr. Joshua Ehrlich explores fantasy as a central but often overlooked force in human behavior, sexuality, and relationships.
Rather than treating consent only as a legal or moral issue, Dr. Ehrlich invites us to think about it psychologically: What happens when fantasy remains private? What changes when fantasy moves into the world? And how do vulnerability, power, control, shame, longing, and separateness shape the way people relate to one another?
The conversation moves through childhood play, sports fandom, celebrity worship, anxiety, sexual entitlement, men’s behavior, pornography, emerging technologies, and the fantasy of the “omni-available woman.”
This seminar is for clinicians, psychoanalysts, therapists, students, and serious readers interested in how psychoanalytic thinking can deepen contemporary conversations about consent, fantasy, sexuality, and relational life.
Purchase the full video through the Let’s Talk Psychoanalysis shop:
https://www.letstalkpsychoanalysis.com/shop
#Psychoanalysis #Fantasy #Consent #Psychotherapy #MensSexuality #ClinicalThinking #MentalHealthProfessionals
