The U.S. philosopher and psychoanalyst, Jonathan Lear, saw human beings as restless animals, whose defining trait was the uncontainable nature of their desire. No utopia that we can imagine will ever fully satisfy us – we will always want more. Lear’s interest in our irrepressible urge to transcend ourselves was already apparent in the first […]
Lear on Freud: the Uncontainable Nature of Desire
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Lear on Freud: the Uncontainable Nature of Desire
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