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Jouissance
Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
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"A stimulating psychoanalytic investigation that encourages a rethinking of the term 'Jouissance'"--
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Although the term jouissance is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering, and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up.
Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different issues that should be distinguished rather than conflated.
By returning to some of the sources of the concept in Freud, and their elaborations in Lacan, Jouissance hopes to stimulate a debate around the relations of pleasure to pain, autoerotism, the links of satisfaction to arousal, the effects of repression, and the place of the body in psychoanalytic theory. Leader aims to provide context for Lacan's work and encourage dialogue with other analytic traditions.
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Jouissance by Darian Leader is praised for bringing clarity to the concept of 'jouissance,' especially through its intricate link with Freud and Lacan's philosophies. Readers appreciate the book's thorough research and engaging prose, with its insights into the nuanced relationship between pleasure, sex, and satisfaction, making it appealing to a broad audience interested in psychoanalysis.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781509548842
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 July 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 181g
Pages: 138
About the Author
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. His books include What is Madness?, Hands and Why Can't We Sleep?
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