The End of Dissatisfaction? by Todd McGowan (.ePUB)
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The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment by Todd McGowan (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
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Overview: Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.
This is the transformation from a society founded on the prohibition of enjoyment (and thus the dissatisfaction of its subjects) to a society that commands enjoyment or jouissance (in which there seems to be no requisite dissatisfaction). Whereas formerly society has required subjects to renounce their private enjoyment in the name of social duty, today the only duty seems to consist in enjoying oneself as much as possible. The fundamental social duty in contemporary American society lies in committing oneself to enjoyment. Advertisements, friends, movies, parents, television shows, internet sites, and even authority figures all call on us to maximize our enjoyment. This marks a dramatic change in the way the social order is constituted: rather than being tied together through a shared sacrifice, subjects exist side by side in their isolated enclaves of enjoyment.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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