The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

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An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.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 Along the way, Schuster offers his own engaging and surprising conceptual analyses and inventive examples In the Critique of Pure Complaint he provides a philosophy of complaining, ranging from Freud s theory of neurosis to Spinoza s intellectual complaint of God and the Deleuzian great complaint Schuster goes on to elaborate, among other things, a theory of love as mutually compatible symptoms an original philosophical history of pleasure, including a hypothetical Heideggerian treatise and a Platonic theory of true pleasure and an exploration of the 1920s literature of the death drive, including Thomas Mann, Italo Svevo, and Blaise Cendrars. Download The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis – kino-fada.fr There has been some truly wonderful work produced in the field of Lacanian theory in the last few years, such as A Kiarina Kordela s Surplus Spinoza, Lacan 2007 and Samo Tom i s The Capitalist Unconscious 2015 , which use their fusion of Lacan with, respectively, Spinoza and Marx to bring dramatic insights into the value of his work Aaron Schuster s The Trouble with Pleasure manages the same approach by bringing together Lacan and Deleuze.Such a strategy seems, at first glance, rather unu There has been some truly wonderful work produced in the field of Lacanian theory in the last few years, such as A Kiarina Kordela s Surplus Spinoza, Lacan 2007 and Samo Tom i s The Capitalist Unconscious 2015 , which use their fusion of Lacan with, respectively, Spinoza and Marx to bring dramatic insights into the value of his work Aaron Schuster s The Trouble with Pleasure manages the same approach by bringing together Lacan and Deleuze.Such a strategy seems, at first glance, rather unusual, as these two thinkers are often seen as radically opposed to each other Whereas Lacan is supposedly a thinker of lack and negativity, Deleuze is supposedly a affirmative philosopher in the vitalist tradition And anyway, didn t Deleuze and Guattari sound the death knell for psychoanalysis when they published Anti Oedipus 1972 Wouldn t that book be the ultimate take down of both Lacan and his Freudian buddies When I was undergraduate...Schuster makes the attempt to bring Deleuze into discussion with psychoanalysis without resorting to oversimplifications and vulgar reductions While the book ultimately offers no grand conclusion or resolution, Schuster makes a lot of high theory accessible The problem is that the book becomes absorbed into summaries and takes no definitive stand There s also a lot of stylistic imitation of Zizek, but nothing that encroaches on Schuster s own material Schuster spends a lot of t...I picked this book up after listening to a Podcast by Schuster I actually mistook him for Zizek I came to Lacan by way of Deleuze, and have been doing my best to give him a charitable reading Bruce Fink was quite helpful in this regard I will say that, for a Lacanian who is writing in a series presided by Zizek, this book is awfully gracious towards Deleuze I appreciate the bend towards psychoanalysis, as well as Schuster s attempt to resist the cliche reading of Deleuze as simply a philo I picked this book up after listening to a Podcast by Schuster I actually mistook him for Zizek I came to Lacan by way of Deleuze, and have been doing my best to give him a charitable reading Bruce Fink was quite helpful in this regard I will say that, for a Lacanian who is writing in a series presided by Zizek, this book is awfully gracious towards Deleuze I appreciate the bend towards psychoanalysis, as well as Schuster s attempt to resist the cliche reading of Deleuze a...This is a very readable book which brings out the connections and disconnections between Deleuzean and Lacanian thought in a clear and accessible way, although I imagine the level of clarity is probably somewhat dependent on the reader s background and prior reading There is an obvious Lacanian direction to the book and Schuster appears to feel considerablycomfortable and confident when discussing Lacan He does, however, for someone with a background in Lacan, at least, render aspects of This is...surprisingly helpful in salvaging DG, written from a Lacanian in the broad, ecumenical sense povWell worth the readSuccinctly summarizes and compares Lacan and Deluez An excellent starting point for further understanding these complex works Threewords, required.Mostly useless.

The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
  • English
  • 03 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 0262528592
  • Aaron Schuster
  • The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis