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Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "On My Antecedents"

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Repetition Is Not a Question of Pleasure

Lakhan: Why repeat the terrible part of your day? Because we get off on it. There's an element of enjoyment at work here. Remember this doesn't bring us pleasure. We enjoy repeating at the level of speech What experienced what happened to us in reality? Lakhan: The masochist is not simply somebody who enjoys Jui saunce. It's their relationship to the law Not the pain and suffering but all the rules and regulations of life. They enjoy the law the legislative the linguistic part of the activity That is truly important for what we're up to here in a class on rhetorical theory. And that's why the example of coming home after a difficult day

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