Kid A In Alphabet Land/Jouissance
Jouissance
Kid A In Alphabet Land Jousts with Jouissance!
Jouissance names a form of enjoyment that exceeds pleasure. It refers to satisfaction that becomes painful, disruptive, or excessive—enjoyment that transgresses the limits imposed by the pleasure principle.
In Lacanian theory, jouissance emerges where the symbolic order fails to regulate desire completely. It marks the point at which enjoyment is no longer compatible with well-being or coherence.
Jouissance is not something the subject simply chooses; it is bound to repetition, compulsion, and the insistence of the drive. It is experienced as both attraction and threat.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, Jouissance confronts Kid A as an overwhelming excess. What promises satisfaction also risks undoing the subject who pursues it.