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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Orgasm Is the Ultimate Expression of the Weight

The effectual tension of the orgasm is maybe one of the highest registers, a higher amplitude than any other type of release of energy. We're taking the body's psychical energy and we're like, flattening it out. But that's not to say that writing a poem can't, there's an amplitude of that as well. So it's still providing satisfaction, but it may not provide the same level of intensity.

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