Trouble with Pleasure Schuster Aaron
Trouble with Pleasure 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…
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Trouble with Pleasure 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.Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? 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. Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss?
In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. 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. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a