Darian Leader, "Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction" (Polity Press, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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Is It a Slippery Term, or a Catch All Term?
i consider myself on the beginninga, maybe a little beyond beginning, but sort of in terms of understanding lacanian theory and psychoanalysis. Ah, and i, i i kind of thought, oh, this is going to be a book that's really going to speak to me. A, you sort of review your conclusion that we are better served by a plurality of concepts rather than one catch all term. And then you proceed in the next hundred and 34 pages of this relatively short book to review lacon's evolving theorization of juissance through the various stages of his thinking. It might be tempting for some who's not read the book to assume that it's this sort of a difficulty
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