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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.
==Jacques Lacan and ''Jouissance''==