Changes

| [[English]]: ''[[enjoyment]]''{{Bottom}}|}

There is no adequate translation in [[English]] of the this word ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref>It is left untranslated in most [[English]] editions of [[Lacan]].</ref> "[[jouissance|Enjoyment]]" does conveys the sense, contained in ''[[jouissance]]'', of '''enjoyment of rights''', of ''property'', etc.Unfortunatly, but it obscures in modern English, the word has lost the ''sexual connotation'' (i.e. "orgasm") of the connotations it still retains in [[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]]", 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]].