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==Sigmund Freud==
===Beyond the Pleasure Principle===
[[Freud]] suggests that there is something "beyond the pleasure principle" -- namely the [[death drive]]s -- which attempt to reduce psychic tension to zero, and thus to return living beings to an inorganic state.
==Jacques Lacan==
For [[Lacan]] the [[pleasure principle]] is an obstacle to ''[[jouissance]]' that takes the [[subject]] to that extreme point where the erotic borders upon [[death]] and where [[subjectivity]] risks extinction.
The [[pleasure principle]] is a commandment -- which can be phrased -- "Enjoy as little as possible."
<blockquote>The function of the pleasure principle is, in effect, to lead the subject from signifier to signifier, by generating as amny signifiers as are required to maintain at as low a level as possible the tension that regulates the whole functioning of the psychic apparatus.<ref>{{S7}} p.119</ref></blockquote> [[Lacan]] describes the [[pleasure principle]] in the [[seminar]] of 1954-5.<ref>{{L}} [[Seminar II]]."[[Seminar II|Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse]]." (The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis.) 1954-5. Unpublished.</ref>
[[Lacan]] describes the [[pleasure principle]] in the [[seminar]] of 1954-5.<ref>{{L}} "[[Seminar II|Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse]]." (The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis.) 1954-5. Unpublished.</ref>
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