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Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

CHAPTER

The Importance of Pleasure in the Book

The pleasure is all is always momentary it's fleeting and as Freud describes I think really nicely. It comes from a release of tension or excitation right like you get some tension build up, it's for Freud out is the idea for you to think you have this sexual actRight then you that's the moment of pleasure Right? So the moments leading up to that that build up our for Freud painful right like they're you're building up excitation that that's painful because you're not yet experiencing pleasure so enjoyment is actually that all those moments of where you give trouble to yourself right like the way that you cause yourself problems that's actually enjoyment in this opposite of play. That's more

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