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Book review: the trouble with pleasure: deleuze and psychoanalysis by Aaron Schuster

Year: 2016

Type: book-review

Abstract: In The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis, Aaron Schuster explores Gilles Deleuze’s complex relationship with psychoanalysis, in particular Lacanian theory, in order to ‘short circuit’ contemporary understandings of desire and pleasure. Traversing topics such as pessimism, complaint, the pleasure principle, the death drive, lethargy and schizophrenia, this is a rich and thorough study of the psychoanalytic history of pleasure, writes Sofia Ropek Hewson.

Source: London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Author: Sofia Ropek Hewson

Language: English

Topic: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2474477329

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