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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Laplancia's Sexuality as a Function

In terms of sexuality, there's a tabla rasa. If the first need is being kept warm and being fed, if the first satisfaction is a satisfaction of instinct properly speaking, of feeding, let's just say. This is what Laplancia will want to distinguish as a function. The sexual drive begins to crop up and prop itself on the instinctual function and denature it and swerve it. That's why he talks about the sexuality as like a constitutive climate. It's already deviated from the start as it starts because it's already inclined upon the vital function of feeding.

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