Leo Bersani

Leo Bersani (16 April 1931 – 20 February 2022) was an American literary theorist and Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

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"In giving up an instinctive satisfaction, we simultaneously (1) internalize the authority presumably inhibiting the instinct, (2) increase our sense of guilt by intensifying our desire for satisfaction, (3) submit the ego to the fury of an aggressiveness originally intended for the inhibiting external authority."

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