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The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

Schuster, Aaron

Paperback

Series: Short Circuits

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262528592
ISBN13: 9780262528597
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 26 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.

Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, two of the most formidable figures of postwar French thought. Though the encounter with psychoanalysis deeply marked Deleuze's work, we are yet to have a critical account of the very different postures he adopted toward psychoanalysis, and especially Lacanian theory, throughout his career. In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them. Schuster focuses on drive and desire--the strange, convoluted relationship of human beings to the forces that move them from within--the trouble with pleasure.

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