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In Western thought, pleasure has always been conceived as a positive, compensatory, at times domesticated experience — one capable of offering a brief reprieve from the sense of emptiness. Yet each time pleasure asserts itself, it also reveals its own negation.
There is no pleasure without risk, excess, exposure, or dislocation — nor without the shadow of a wound. Georges Bataille, in fact, described pleasure as a transgression of being: an outward impulse, a rupture of the boundaries that enclose the subject within its seemingly stable form, the moment when the naked self separates from the ego cogito.
Thus, in its most extreme dimension of freedom, pleasure becomes an experience of the beyond — a threshold where the individual encounters both their own essence and their own dissolution.
Conversely, if for Bataille pleasure is impulse and excess, for Roland Barthes — as suggested in…
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In Western thought, pleasure has always been conceived as a positive, compensatory, at times domesticated experience — one capable of offering a brief reprieve from the sense of emptiness. Yet each time pleasure asserts itself, it also reveals its own negation.
There is no pleasure without risk, excess, exposure, or dislocation — nor without the shadow of a wound. Georges Bataille, in fact, described pleasure as a transgression of being: an outward impulse, a rupture of the boundaries that enclose the subject within its seemingly stable form, the moment when the naked self separates from the ego cogito.
Thus, in its most extreme dimension of freedom, pleasure becomes an experience of the beyond — a threshold where the individual encounters both their own essence and their own dissolution.
Conversely, if for Bataille pleasure is impulse and excess, for Roland Barthes — as suggested in…
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