Series forward
Preface: critique of pure complaint
Was i thirsty?
In pessimism more than pessimism
Truth is a complaint
The intellectual complaint of god
The failure not to be
In praise of lamentation
A complainer's discourse
The saintly hypochondriac
Introduction: clinical prospects for a future philosophy
The odd couple
Is life a disease?
Virtual extinction
The trouble with pleasure
The beyonds of the pleasure principle
Subjectivation without subject
Habitus, or the id
Mnemosyne, or the virtual object
Thanatos, or the deleuzian oedipus complex
Primal repression
The scorpion and the frog
The strange spinozism of perversion
Return to melanie klein
Schizoid pre-socratics and depressive platonism
The Oedipus complex and its successful resolution
The sublime object of perversion
Logic of sense or logic of the signifier?
Is pleasure a rotten idea?
The speculative sense of lust
Elements for a history of pleasure
Freud's philosophy of pleasure
Pleasure and sublimation
The lethargy of being
To have done with lack
The artist and the panther
Compatible symptoms
Courtly love, or the thing
We shall give priority to trash
Between instincts and institutions
The philosophy of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia as a philosophical problem
The schizophrenic process
Drive and desire
From death drive to debt drive
A philosophical clinic
Notes
Index.