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Subject(s)

• Pleasure [Browse]
• Pleasure principle (Psychology) [Browse]
• Psychoanalysis [Browse]
• Nancy, Jean-Luc—Interviews [Browse]

Interviewee

• Nancy, Jean-Luc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Interviews [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• interviews [Browse]

Summary note

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, Hegel, Saint Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Coming
• Preliminaries
• Are We Alone in Jouissance?
• From Animal Instinct to Desire of the Other: How to Go from Plaisir to Jouir?
• Toward Infinity and Beyond: Is There an Art to Jouir?
• The Condemnation of Jouissance
• From Profit to Consumption/Consummation: Can We Enjoy Everything?
• Body of Pleasure
• Ruhren, Beruhren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising)
• Neither Seeing Nor Having (Ni le voir ni l'avoir)
• Nude Enumerated.

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ISBN

• 9780823273508 ((electronic bk.))
• 0823273504 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780823273492
• 0823273490
• 9780823273485
• 0823273482
• 9780823273515
• 0823273512

OCLC

961105734

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