The Trouble With Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Slavoj Žižek
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Jul 3, 202619 July 2016
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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.
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