''[[Jouissance]]'' is a [[French]] term.
The [[French]] ''[[jouissance]]'' means approximately ''[[enjoyment]]'', but it has a sexual connotation (i.e. 'orgasm') lacking in the [[English]] word '[[enjoyment]]', and is therefore left untranslated in most [[English]] editions of [[Lacan]].
The [[French]] noun means '[[enjoyment]]' in both the sense of [[pleasure]] and in the sense in which one speaks of the [[enjoyment]] of [[right]]s and privileges.
It is commonly treated as a [[French]] word and italicized accordingly.
''[[Jouissance]]'' is always used in the singular and is always accompanied by the singular definite article.
==Jacques Lacan and ''Jouissance''==
