The joint efforts necessary to deepen a marriage can be, in themselves,
pleasurable forms of sharing.
Not exact matches
But if you aspire to
forms of life in common constellated around public things, in affectively charged ways that are both
pleasurable and sometimes infuriating, built around finding, promoting and building
shared public objects, engaged in some common cause, but not disciplined into oppressive
forms of normalisation, then agonistic politics is very optimistic.
In the process, they not only pinpoint
pleasurable aspects
of the situation and enhance the intensity
of their joy in the present, they also
form clearer and more vivid memories they can more easily recall and
share with others in the future.