"Psychoanalysis only sees mechanical and interchangeable processes wherein pleasure is apparently derived from the termination of any state of tension, from the discharge of a concurrent “charge” (Besetzungsenergie) of the libido. Indeed the term in German that signifies sexual satisfaction or pleasure—Befriedigung—connotes a sense of perturbation because it also means the pacification, almost the cessation, of a disagreeable state of tension, agitation, or excitement. We should ponder whether this theory is not merely symptomatic of our times, for to perceive sexuality and “pleasure” in these simple terms proceeds from an eros that has become primitive and physical."