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Definition of Jouissance

Jouissance
Jouissance Jou"is*sance, n. [F., fr. jouir to enjoy, fr. L. gaudere to rejoice.] Jollity; merriment. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Meaning of Jouissance from wikipedia

- In continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance is the transgression of a subject's regulation of pleasure. It is linked to the division and splitting...
- early 20th century; and subsequently fed into Lacanian emphasis on "a jouissance beyond the pleasure principle" in the latter half of the century – a time...
- unary signifier of lack (phallus) stitches the unconscious drives to jouissance, dialectically bridging language and desire (logos and eros, the Apollonian...
- the death drive. Hedonism Id, ego and super-ego Ignacio Matte Blanco Jouissance Pierre Janet Reality principle Self-control Utilitarianism Laplanche,...
- UK, and New York, 1994, pp. 231–50. Fischer, Michael MJ. "Ptolemaic Jouissance and the Anthropology of Kinship: A Commentary on Ager" The Power of Excess:...
- and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music. The origin of this philosophic shift is sometimes attributed...
- accompanied by the idea of the sinthome, the process of "the idiosyncratic jouissance of a particular subject", functioning as a creative enjoyment of the symptom...
- During this period, he developed his concepts of masculine and feminine jouissance and placed an increased emphasis on the concept of "the Real" as a point...
- of the symbolic order). It is ****ociated, rather, with both fear and jouissance. In phobia, Kristeva reads the trace of a pre-linguistic confrontation...
- of this pleasurable reading, which he termed the bliss in reading or jouissance, is a point in which one becomes lost within the text. This loss of self...