Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word JOUISSANCE
JOUISSANCE
Definitions of JOUISSANCE
- In poststructuralism, a transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
- (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using JOUISSANCE in a Sentence
- In continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance is the transgression of a subject's regulation of pleasure.
- A Lacanian Reading of No-No Boy and Obasan: Traumatic Thing and Transformation into Subjects of Jouissance By: Chen, Fu-Jen; Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, 2007 May; 31: 105–29.
- In the discourse of the Master, one signifier attempts to represent the subject for all other signifiers, but a surplus is always produced: this surplus is objet petit a, a surplus meaning, a surplus of jouissance.
- The ineffable, unary signifier of lack (phallus) stitches the unconscious drives to jouissance, dialectically bridging language and desire (logos and eros, the Apollonian and the Dionysian).
- A Lacanian Concept, he argued that the nucleus that holds psychoanalytical clinic and theory together is the concept of jouissance, which can be minimally defined as "the ways in which a body is affected by language".
- He uses the term "jouissance" to refer to the lost object or feeling of absence (see manque) which a person believes to be unobtainable.
- Lyotard appropriates various ideas of Freud's, in particular his idea of libidinal economy by which libido flows, like a form of energy, through a structure of drives, while also using his idea of polymorphous perversity and appropriating Jacques Lacan's idea of jouissance to detail how masses of intensities form.
- The Real was what was lacking or absent from every totalising structural theory; and in the form of jouissance, and the persistence of the symptom or synthome, marked Lacan's shifting of psychoanalysis from modernity to postmodernity.
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