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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouissancehttp://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=602http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/jouissance.htm ===Definition===''[[Jouissance]]'' is a [[French]] [[:Category:Dictionary|term]] which can be roughly translated as "[[enjoyment]]". The french noun means "enjoyment" in both the sense of pleasure and in the sense in which one speaks of the enjoyment of rights and privileges. In French jouissance includes the enjoyment of rights and property, but also the slang verb ''jouir'', to come, and so is related to the greatest pleasure attainable, that of the sexual act.
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 ==Jacques Lacan== ==''Jouissance'' and Pleasure==[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] made a distinction between [[jouissance]] ([[enjoyment]]) and ''[[plaisir]]'' ([[pleasure]]). [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] introduced an opposition between [[jouissance]] ([[enjoyment]]) and ''[[plaisir]]'' ([[pleasure]]). ==Pleasure== "[[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.  The [[pleasure principle]] thus functions as a limit imposed on [[enjoyment]]; it commands the [French[subject]] to "enjoy as little as possible."  "''[[Jouissance]]''" transgresses this [[law]] word and italicized accordingly, in that respect, it is ''beyond'' the [[pleasure principle]].
''[[Jouissance]]'' is always used in the singular and is always accompanied by the singular definite article.
==Jacques Lacan and ''Jouissance''==
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