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| [[English]]: ''[[enjoyment]]''{{Bottom}|}
=====Translator's Note=====
There is no adequate translation in [[English]] of the word ''[[jouissance]]''. "[[jouissance|Enjoyment]]" does conveys the sense, contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of '''enjoyment of rights''', of property, etc. Unfortunatly, in modern English, but lacks the word has lost the ''sexual connotations it still retains in '' of the [[French]]word. (''Jouir'' is slang for "to come".)
"[[Pleasure]]", on the other hand, is pre-empted by "''[[plaisir]]''" -- and [[Lacan]] uses the two terms quite differently. "[[Pleasure]]" obeys the [[law]] of '''homeostasis'' that [[Freud]] evokes in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', whereby, through discharge, the psyche seeks the lowest possible level of tension. "''[[Jouissance]]''" transgresses this [[law]] and, in that respect, it is ''beyond'' the [[pleasure principle]].
