The trouble with pleasure : Deleuze and psychoanalysis / Schuster, Aaron.

An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.

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Main Author: Schuster, Aaron, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
Series:Short circuits.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series forward
  • Preface: critique of pure complaint
  • Was i thirsty?
  • In pessimism more than pessimism
  • Truth is a complaint
  • The intellectual complaint of god
  • The failure not to be
  • In praise of lamentation
  • A complainer's discourse
  • The saintly hypochondriac
  • Introduction: clinical prospects for a future philosophy
  • The odd couple
  • Is life a disease?
  • Virtual extinction
  • The trouble with pleasure
  • The beyonds of the pleasure principle
  • Subjectivation without subject
  • Habitus, or the id
  • Mnemosyne, or the virtual object
  • Thanatos, or the deleuzian oedipus complex
  • Primal repression
  • The scorpion and the frog
  • The strange spinozism of perversion
  • Return to melanie klein
  • Schizoid pre-socratics and depressive platonism
  • The Oedipus complex and its successful resolution
  • The sublime object of perversion
  • Logic of sense or logic of the signifier?
  • Is pleasure a rotten idea?
  • The speculative sense of lust
  • Elements for a history of pleasure
  • Freud's philosophy of pleasure
  • Pleasure and sublimation
  • The lethargy of being
  • To have done with lack
  • The artist and the panther
  • Compatible symptoms
  • Courtly love, or the thing
  • We shall give priority to trash
  • Between instincts and institutions
  • The philosophy of schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia as a philosophical problem
  • The schizophrenic process
  • Drive and desire
  • From death drive to debt drive
  • A philosophical clinic
  • Notes
  • Index.