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Author Schuster, Aaron, 1974- author.

Title The trouble with pleasure : Deleuze and psychoanalysis / Schuster, Aaron
Published Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
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Series Short circuits
Short circuits.
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
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
Analysis CULTURAL STUDIES/Critical Theory
PHILOSOPHY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
SUBJECT Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast
Subject Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
Pleasure principle (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis.
Pleasure-Pain Principle
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
Psychoanalysis
Pleasure principle (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262334150
0262334151
9780262334167
026233416X