
Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
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Is the Sexual Excitation the Lure for Procreation?
I'm wondering if the sexual charge of eating and satisfying other drives is part of the lure we've talked in the past about, kind of the lure for procreation would be the orgasm. There's still something instinctual to it, but it's displaced or it's, there's a differential and it's not this one to one. And I think that those two things are important for understanding what the planche means when he says that, you know, Freud's seduction theory should be generalized and universalized and not taken literally.
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