Aaron Schuster : The Trouble with Pleasure (Book-Launch at MaMa)
Channel: pmilat
Date: 2016-07-23

* MaMa, Zagreb / July 11, 2016 *

Talk by Aaron Schuster [0' - 30']
Q&A with Petar Milat & Ante Jerić [30' - 66']

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 thought. 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.

In The Trouble with Pleasure, Aaron Schuster tackles this tangled relationship head on. The result is neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them. Schuster focuses on drive and desire—the strange, convoluted relationship of human beings to the forces that move them from within— “the trouble with pleasure.”

http://mi2.hr/en/2016/06/aaron-schuster-nevolja-s-uzitkom/