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[[Image:Kida_j.gif |right|frame|[[Kid A In Alphabet Land - Jouissance]]]]
==Translation==
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===Pleasure===
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=====Practice=====
The [[practice]] of [[psychoanalysis]] examines the different ways and means [[The Subject|the subject ]] uses to produce ''jouissance''. It is by means of the bien [[dire]], the well-spoken, where the subject comes to [[speak]] in a new way, a way of speaking the [[truth]], that a different distribution of ''jouissance'' may be achieved. The [[analytic]] act is a cut, a break with a certain mode of ''jouissance'' fixed in the fantasy. The consequent crossing of the fantasy leaves the subject having to endure being alone with his/her own ''jouissance'' and to encounter its operation in the drive, a unique, [[singular]] way of being alone with one's own ''jouissance''. [[The Cut|The cut]] of the analytic act leaves the subject having to make his/her own something that was formerly [[alien]]. This produces a new stance in relation to ''jouissance''.
=====Psychosis=====
