The trouble with pleasure : Deleuze and psychoanalysis / / Schuster, Aaron

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809047703321
• Autore: Schuster Aaron <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA : , : The MIT Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-262-33416-X; 0-262-33415-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Collana: Short circuits
• Disciplina: 150.19/5
• Soggetti: Psychoanalysis - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.