The trouble with pleasure
Subtitle: Deleuze and psychoanalysis
By: Schuster, Aaron
Series: Short circuits
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780262528597
Subjects: Social aspects; Psychoanalysis
Description: Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favour 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. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Series forward; title: Preface: critique of pure complaint; title: Was i thirsty?; title: In pessimism more than pessimism; title: Truth is a complaint; title: The intellectual complaint of god; title: The failure not to be; title: In praise of lamentation; title: A complainer's discourse; title: The saintly hypochondriac; title: Introduction: clinical prospects for a future philosophy; title: The odd couple; title: Is life a disease?; title: Virtual extinction; title: The trouble with pleasure; title: The beyonds of the pleasure principle; title: Subjectivation without subject; title: Habitus, or the id; title: Mnemosyne, or the virtual object; title: Thanatos, or the deleuzian oedipus complex; title: Primal repression; title: The scorpion and the frog; title: The strange spinozism of perversion; title: Return to melanie klein; title: Schizoid pre-socratics and depressive platonism; title: The Oedipus complex and its successful resolution; title: The sublime object of perversion; title: Logic of sense or logic of the signifier?; title: Is pleasure a rotten idea?; title: The speculative sense of lust; title: Elements for a history of pleasure; title: Freud's philosophy of pleasure; title: Pleasure and sublimation; title: The lethargy of being; title: To have done with lack; title: The artist and the panther; title: Compatible symptoms; title: Courtly love, or the thing; title: We shall give priority to trash; title: Between instincts and institutions; title: The philosophy of schizophrenia; title: Schizophrenia as a philosophical problem; title: The schizophrenic process; title: Drive and desire; title: From death drive to debt drive; title: A philosophical clinic; title: Notes; title: Index.