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Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is There a Lure of Sexual Pleasure in Eating?

There's a lure of sexual pleasure in eating as a sort of not instinct per se, but as a type of way to provide a pressure towards eating. What we know that eating disorders are a thing that one doesn't necessarily eat to satisfy a function. There's ways in which the sexual,. the drive can push us to eat or to even Freud notes, like the child will sort of masochistically build up a bowel and their systems to build up the pressure. So that there's more pleasure in evacuating.

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