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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

- Jouissance (pronounced [ʒwisɑ̃s] ) is a French language term held untranslatable into English. In continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance...
- unary signifier of lack (phallus) stitches the unconscious drives to jouissance, dialectically bridging language and desire (logos and eros, the Apollonian...
- 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...
- and a symbol of feminine jouissance. They must repay their Freudian or Jungian debts from the guilt of want. Their jouissance in her death arises from...
- hardcore version of this film by Riccardo Freda (under the title Chaleur et jouissance) featuring actress Alice Arno. Italian Quiet Days in Clichy 1970 A film...
- and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment (plaisir and jouissance) of music. The origin of this philosophic shift is sometimes attributed...
- psychic fusion" with the mother, experiencing "emotional exhilaration and jouissance". However, as they mature, sensing their separateness from the mother...
- 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:...
- or absent from every totalising structural theory; and in the form of jouissance, and the persistence of the symptom or synthome, marked Lacan's shifting...
- 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...