"Cold War "Super-Pleasure
Insatiability, Self-Stimulation, and the Postwar Brain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Otniel E Dror (0000-0002-6726-6626, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 227-249 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/688162 |
| PMID | 30129731 |
| OpenAlex | W2529575159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
In this contribution, I study the post–World War II discovery of a new “supramaximal” “super-pleasure” in the brain. I argue that the excessiveness of the newly discovered supramaximal super-pleasure challenged existing models of organisms, of the self, and of nature and society, and that it prescribed a rethinking and a repositioning of pleasure. I reconstruct the laboratory enactments and models that constituted this new pleasure as “supramaximal,” instant, and insatiable, suggest several postwar contexts that situate the new pleasure, and examine expert and vernacular reactions to the new super-pleasure. I also introduce and reflect on an approach that “sides with” emotion, and I present the notion of a “missed” emotion. I conclude with a brief consideration of “repetitions”—for science and for pleasure
Aesthetics · Pleasure · Pleasure principle · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology
Conditions for Criticism
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
(Re)locating pleasure in media studies
Freud’s social theory
A history of deep brain stimulation
American Modernities, Past and Present
The Sensation of Pleasure
The Psychophysiological Basis for Two Kinds of Instincts
"Revisiting "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |