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Deleuze with Guattari

Why Theory

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Is There a Desire That's Not Lack?

I think it's part of their project to reclaim this aspect of capitalism that psychoanalysis has critiqued. I don't get how you would desire something if you were not lacking, right? Like I just think just doesn't make sense to me. But look, they're right to say, and of course this is the psychoanalytic point, that there's no specific object that's lacking.

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