Darian Leader, "Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction" (Polity Press, 2021)
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What's a Descriptive?
In our work with patients, we often see this phenomenon where there seems to be something pleasurable happening around something painful or some enjoyment. And so it's very immediately to go, ot, that's jewy science on but i think that would be a descriptive, my ray. That might be an ocuse of the term - if we then encouraged to think about why the person is engaged in that behaviour and how it came to evolve in their life. Which is really what freud was trying to explore much of his work,. from the early work to to really the last work in the 19 thirties. But in the kind of current licanian world, if we meet a patient
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