Is Pleasure a Rotten Idea?

Schuster, Aaron

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“…Freud's clinical work, however, forced him to recognize an issue with this model of pleasure. Early on, he articulates it in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality as infantile sexuality and its partial (component) drives (Freud 1905;Schuster 2016). Infantile sexuality does not aim at the reduction of tension to derive pleasure.…”

Section: N Fa N T I L E S E X Ua L I T Y: T H E O T H E R E N J Oy M E N Tmentioning

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“…Freud (1905) ultimately downplays this issue by focusing on the goal of genital sexuality. He describes how the partial drives (seeking increased excitation) are subsumed under the flag of genital sexuality, which ultimately aims at the reduction of tension in proper libidinal development (Schuster 2016). By setting up genital sexuality as the teleological endpoint of development, Freud privileges the pleasure principle's status quo of tension-reduction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this move causes Freud to grapple with the uncanny return of paradoxes, aberrations, and fractures within the pleasure principle, such as primary masochism 7 (Freud 1924) and the death drive (Freud 1920). Returning to the roots put down in Three Essays, Lacan (1972Lacan ( -1973 highlights the fact that Freud's privileging of genital sexuality does not make sense in relation to infantile sexuality (Schuster 2016). How can the partial drives, seeking their own increase of tension, ever be fully united under a harmonious genital whole of decreased tension?…”

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Sex and Prediction Error, Part 1: The Metapsychology of Jouissance

Dall’Aglio¹

2021

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Jouissance is one of Jacques Lacan’s most impenetrable concepts. Yet it is essential to Lacan’s view of sex. The term is sometimes translated as “enjoyment,” but this misses key features of the concept, notably its “traumatic,” excessive character. This excess points to a structural negativity within the subject (i.e., the real), an original split that cannot be remedied. In this first of a series of three papers, it is proposed that “surplus prediction error”—as understood within contemporary neuropsychoanalysis—is a neural correlate for jouissance. In part 1, jouissance is explicated within Lacanian metapsychology, primarily in reference to Lacan’s real and symbolic registers. Jouissance is an excess enjoyment, outside of the binding, representational capacities of language. The real is the negativity or antagonism within the symbolic, the limit of language and meaning, the point where jouissance emerges. To clarify the relationships among these terms, their positions are traced in some of Freud’s major concepts, including drive, infantile sexuality, repetition, and the unconscious. A basic understanding of jouissance is necessary for the rest of this Lacanian neuropsychoanalytic project.

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Section: N Fa N T I L E S E X Ua L I T Y: T H E O T H E R E N J Oy M E N Tmentioning

confidence: 99%