The Trouble with Pleasure
Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
$94.72
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2016
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528597 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262528592 |
| Author: | Aaron Schuster |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 421g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Aaron Schuster
Aaron Schuster is a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Rijeka, Croatia, and at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin. He is Head of the Theory Program at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
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