The trouble with pleasure : Deleuze and psychoanalysis / Aaron Schuster.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

x, 224 pages ; 23 cm.

Series forward -- Preface: critique of pure complaint -- Was I thirsty? -- In pessimism more than pessimism -- Truth is a complaint -- The intellectual complaint of god -- The failure not to be -- In praise of lamentation -- A complainer's discourse -- The saintly hypochondriac -- Introduction: clinical prospects for a future philosophy -- The odd couple -- Is life a disease? -- Virtual extinction -- The trouble with pleasure -- The beyonds of the pleasure principle -- Subjectivation without subject -- Habitus, or the id -- Mnemosyne, or the virtual object -- Thanatos, or the deleuzian oedipus complex -- Primal repression -- The scorpion and the frog -- The strange spinozism of perversion -- Return to Melanie Klein -- Schizoid pre-socratics and depressive platonism -- The Oedipus complex and its successful resolution -- The sublime object of perversion -- Logic of sense or logic of the signifier? -- Is pleasure a rotten idea? -- The speculative sense of lust -- Elements for a history of pleasure -- Freud's philosophy of pleasure -- Pleasure and sublimation -- The lethargy of being -- To have done with lack -- The artist and the panther -- Compatible symptoms -- Courtly love, or the thing -- We shall give priority to trash -- Between instincts and institutions -- The philosophy of schizophrenia -- Schizophrenia as a philosophical problem -- The schizophrenic process -- Drive and desire -- Oblomov and the Stakhanov -- From death drive to debt drive -- A philosophical clinic -- Notes -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-211) and index.