Download or read book Desire and Its Discontents written by Eugene Goodheart and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise engages in a discourse with both academic and general culture in an effort to discriminate amongst the discourses of desire: Marcuse's rationalism of desire; Lacan's celebration of tragedy; and the position of desire in Foucault's early and later writings.