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The [[subject]] is inherently divided and can never be [[satisfaction|satisfied]].
The [[subject]] is plagued by the [[anxiety]] that its ''[[jouissance]]'' - its [[pleasure]] or [[enjoyment]] - is never enough.
The [[subject]] is driven by an inherent dissatisfaction and sense of insufficiency.
[[Phallic jouissance]] is the jouissance that fails us, that disappoints us.
We constantly ahve the sense that there is something ''more''; we do not know what this is, but we have the sense that it is there, and we want it.
[[Phallic jouissance]] is that form of enjoyment that the subject experiences.
The [[subject]], even after it grasps its [[object of desire]] remains dissatisfied.
The subject is disappointed and has a sense that its desire has not been fully satisfied.
This sense of dissatisfaction that always leaves something wanting is precisely what Lacan calls phallic jouissance and defines the masculine structure.
A masculine structure is characterized by turning the Other into an objet a, and mistakenly thinking that the object can fully satisfy its desire.
Phallic jouissance is experienced by both men and women and is defined as phallic insofar as it is characterized by failure.
/ MASCULINE/FEMININE (see also EXCEPTION NOT-ALL)
The Lacanian 'formulae of sexuation" make up a crucial part ofŽižek's thinking: one way of characterizing the overall trajectory of his
work is as a movement from a masculine logic of the universal and
its exception towards a feminine logic of a not-all' without excep-
tion. However, Žižek does not simply oppose the masculine and thefeminine, but rather argues that the masculine is a certain effect ofthe feminine: 'Man is a renexive determination of woman's impossi-bility of achieving an identity with herself (which is why woman is asymptom of man)' (p.276). That is, everything in Žižek can ultimatelybe understood in terms of these two formulae. As Žižek asks: 'What if
sexual difference is ultimately a kind of zero-institution of the social
split of humankind, the naturalized, minimal zero-difference, a split
this difference as such? The struggle for hegemony would then, once
again, be the struggle for how this zero-difference is overdetermined by
other particular social differences." (p. 338) But. in fact, are these twopositions consistent? On the one hand, Žižek argues that man is explained by woman: on the other, that the split between the two sexesis irreconcilable, like the two different conceptions of the same villagein Lévi-Strauss.
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