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The French word ''[[jouissance]]'' means basically "[[enjoyment]]", but it has a sexual connotation (i.e. '"orgasm'") lacking in the English word, and is therefore left untranslated in most English editions of [[Lacan]].

It is only in 1960 that [[Lacan]] develops his classic opposition between ''jouissance'' and pleasure,an opposition which alludes to the [[Hegel]]ian/Kojevian distinciton between ''Genuß'' ([[enjoyment]]) and ''List'' ([[pleasure]]). The [[pleasure principle]] functions as a limit to enjoyment; it is a law whihc commands the [[subject]] to "enjoy as little as possible." At the same time, the [[subject]] constantly attempts to transgress the prohibitions imposed on his enjoyment, to go "beyond the pleasure principle." However, the result of transgressing the pleasure principle is not more pleasure, but pain, since there is only a certain amount of pleasure that the subject can bear. Beyond this limit, pleasur ebecomes pain, and this "painful pleasure" is what [[Lacan]] calls ''[[jouissance]]''. "''jouissance'' is suffering."<ref>{{S7}} p.184</ref> The term ''jouissance'' thus nicely expresses the paradoxical satisfaction that the subject derives from his [[symptom]], or, to put it another way, the suffering that he derives from his on satisfaction.