No: 21 / IS "SEXUAL EDUCATION" POSSIBLE? A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH

  • IS "SEXUAL EDUCATION" POSSIBLE? A PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH

    Funda Akkapulu
    Summary :

    "A child comes into the world with his/her sexuality" says Freud. The child who is born with curiosity forgets his or her experiences and knowledge that he/she has gained thanks to this curiosity. Such an omission cannot be called ignorance. This is a unique oblivion which hides the experinces which have been gained in the early childhood. The ones who intend to provide sexual education may deny these early period influences. Such a denial of educatiors (pedogogues) is one of the main reasons that estrages sexual education from its purposes. Since the child owns these sexual theories; what needs to be done when encountered with these is quite clear. The child must be protected against unneccessary suppression while she/he is busy with his/her curiosity and theories as well as privacy of sexuality. Elimination of what is supposed to be latent should be made available by informing the child in accordance with his/her desires to get guidance he or she needs. By doing so, it becomes possible to expose these desires to childhood amnesia. When such an oblivion falls, the child is given the opportunity to feel a mistaken embarassment. What makes the technique challenging is the characteristics of the mental structures of adults (parents, teachers, pedagogue etc). The curiosity of a child who is allowed to find proper satisfactions in every stage of learning by indisputable realities can will have a slowing influence on every field of learning with the most optimistic prediction if his or her personal story is not taken into consideration. many students who do not like maths, are not able to comprehend paragraph questions but who are good at memorizing have deeply experinced such a mental journey.

    Keywords : Sexual Education, Curiosity, Childhood Sexualty