The Trouble with Pleasure by Aaron Schuster - ISBN: 9780262528597
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An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.

The Trouble with Pleasure

Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    26 February 2016

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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
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
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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