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Sublimation, the Site of Sex

The only way you can enjoy at all is if there is this kind of structural incompleteness, says the author. "Every enjoyment that you have in some other space has to in some way reference that point of lack," she adds. The book's title comes from a line by lacon where he describes his satisfaction as being exactly the same as if he were having sex.

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