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Learning About Lacan w/ Todd McGowan

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Juisance, a Beyond of Pleasure

A juisance is pleasure taken to the point at which it's painful. It's eating enough ice cream cones that you kind of feel sick to your stomach, right? Soits, i' it's always there's an excess attached to it. But that excess always reminds you that you're lacking subjects. Instead, you the more excessive you are, the more you experience yourself as a lacking being.

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