Meaning of jouissance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome.”

“Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body.”

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