The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire, Part 6
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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Freud and Lacan's Pleasure Principle
There's a close connection between human sexuality and the kind of like hyper aggressive. Agonistic antagonistic experiences that couples go through. According to Freud and Lacan as well is governed by the pleasure principle, which is fundamentally homeostatic. What's excluded from the big other what's cut out, barred and prohibited is human enjoyment. Pleasure you're fine. But let's be clear about the distinction. The sex isn't great after the fight. I'm just saying that there's an easier way to have great sex. That would be Lacan's point here. And so that is the trick of analysis according to him is to help the subject. Go all the way up the
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