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Enjoyment Right & Left

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Enjoying What We Don't Have

For Freud, pleasure is the diminution of excitation or of stimulus. So enjoyment in contrast for me is more the trouble that we give ourselves that builds up that excitation. I wrote a book on it's called Enjoying What We Don't Have. But an important thing to hold on to, pleasure is conscious and enjoyment is unconscious.

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