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El Goce

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Jean-Luc Nancy y Adèle Van Reeth abren un debate sobre qué significa gozar: ¿es la satisfacción que se alcanza en el momento último del placer sexual o la que se experimenta por atesorar bienes y disponer libremente de ellos?, ¿se trata de una experiencia mística y solitaria o se refiere al placer de consumir de manera des enfrenada? En 'El goce' no se encontrarán consejos para obtener mayor placer ni para gozar mejor, tampoco es la denuncia de nuestra sociedad que identifica el goce con la apropiación desmedida de bienes y placeres. El goce, al estar hecho de placer, es necesariamente puntual. Eso es lo fascinante: por un lado, el éxtasis, que sobrepasa todo límite y todo placer conocido; por otro, el deseo de volver a él una y otra vez, es decir, la insatisfacción por excelencia.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2014

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Jean-Luc Nancy

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Jean-Luc Nancy is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works, including The Muses (1996), The Experience of Freedom (1993), The Birth to Presence (1993), Being Singular Plural (2000), The Speculative Remark (2001), and A Finite Thinking (2003).

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January 13, 2022
While the "experience of alterity is at the source of jouissance" (27), it is also "the deformation of all form" (31). So, yeah, it's this type of text. A discussion between JLN and Adele van Reeth, or perhaps she's interviewing him, it zips along fairly easily. Several supplemental essays are appended. For a book on sex, there's a decent amount of political and linguistic considerations. Regarding that last quoted bit, he invents the shelf name by stating that "Eroticism or pornography are two systems of accepted, defined forms. But in the act of the relationship [rapport], forms are invented and they even invent their own excess, their own surpassing" (32).

Some great references along the way (Blanchot, Lacan, Foucault, and so on), but my favorite is: "because the body of the other is mixed with my body. In the sexual relationship, a body is created that is aligned with Antonin Artaud’s “organless body,” that is, a body conceived no longer as an organism, but as the production of desire" (23).

Or: "But différance is precisely the relationship to self as that which differs from self. I would say rather: Différance is jouissance, and vice- versa" (41).

Pretty decent overall. Recommended for all those who wondered if prohibition is necessary for jouissance.
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December 18, 2023
«¿Por qué el arte no se detiene? ¿Por qué los hombres siguen creando? Porque en el arte, como en el goce sexual, nunca decimos que tenemos "bastante"».

Pequeño librillo en donde Jean-Luc Nancy conversa con Adèle van Reeth sobre el goce, pero concomitantemente a esto ambos abordan cuestiones como el deseo, el arte, el psicoanálisis, la sociedad de consumo y demás.
Hay reflexiones súper interesantes y después hay otras que quizá no llegué a entender del todo porque, si bien conozco algo de filosofía, no he leído a Spinoza, por ejemplo, que en un momento lo cita y habla sobre conceptos de él. De este filósofo francés leí 58 indicios sobre el cuerpo que también tiene reflexiones que dejan pensando.
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