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The French word '''Jouissance''' means ''enjoyment'', but it has a sexual connotation (i.e. orgasm) lacking in the English word "enjoyment", and is therefore left untranslated in English editions of the works of Jacques Lacan (Dylan Evans).
In his Seminar "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis" (1959-1960) Lacan develops his concept of the opposition of ''jouissance'' and pleasure. The pleasure principle, according to Lacan, functions as a limit to enjoyment: it is the law that commands the subject to 'enjoy as little as possible'. At the same time the subject constantly attempts to transgress the prohibitions imposed on his enjoyment, to go beyond the pleasure principle. Yet the result of transgressing the pleasure principle, according to Lacan, is not more pleasure but pain, since there is only a certain amount of pleasure that the subject can bear. Beyond this limit, pleasure becomes pain, and this 'painful principle' is what Lacan calls ''jouissance''. (Dylan Evans). Thus ''jouissance'' is suffering (''Ethics'').
In his Seminar "Encore" (1972-1973) Lacan states that ''jouissance'' is essentially phallic. That is, insofar as ''jouissance'' is sexual it is phallic, meaning that it does not relate to the Other as such. Lacan admits, however, that there is a specifically feminine ''jouissance'', a supplementary ''jouissance'', which is beyond the phallus, a ''jouissance'' of the Other. This feminine ''jouissance'' is ineffable, for women experience it but know nothing about it.
In his seminar "The Other Side of Psychoanalysis" (1969-1970) Lacan introduced the concept of surplus-jouissance (French 'plus-de-jouir') inspired by Marx's concept of surplus-value: objet petit a is the excess of ''jouissance'' which has no use value, and which persists for the mere sake of ''jouissance''.
The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
★ The Seminars of Jacques Lacan
★ An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Dylan Evans
★ Chronology of Jacques Lacan
★ Lacan Dot Com
★ Slavoj Zizek: Lacan's Formulas of Sexuation
★ Josefina Ayerza: Comme des garçons
In his Seminar "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis" (1959-1960) Lacan develops his concept of the opposition of ''jouissance'' and pleasure. The pleasure principle, according to Lacan, functions as a limit to enjoyment: it is the law that commands the subject to 'enjoy as little as possible'. At the same time the subject constantly attempts to transgress the prohibitions imposed on his enjoyment, to go beyond the pleasure principle. Yet the result of transgressing the pleasure principle, according to Lacan, is not more pleasure but pain, since there is only a certain amount of pleasure that the subject can bear. Beyond this limit, pleasure becomes pain, and this 'painful principle' is what Lacan calls ''jouissance''. (Dylan Evans). Thus ''jouissance'' is suffering (''Ethics'').
In his Seminar "Encore" (1972-1973) Lacan states that ''jouissance'' is essentially phallic. That is, insofar as ''jouissance'' is sexual it is phallic, meaning that it does not relate to the Other as such. Lacan admits, however, that there is a specifically feminine ''jouissance'', a supplementary ''jouissance'', which is beyond the phallus, a ''jouissance'' of the Other. This feminine ''jouissance'' is ineffable, for women experience it but know nothing about it.
In his seminar "The Other Side of Psychoanalysis" (1969-1970) Lacan introduced the concept of surplus-jouissance (French 'plus-de-jouir') inspired by Marx's concept of surplus-value: objet petit a is the excess of ''jouissance'' which has no use value, and which persists for the mere sake of ''jouissance''.
The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
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Sources
★ The Seminars of Jacques Lacan
★ An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Dylan Evans
External Links
★ Chronology of Jacques Lacan
★ Lacan Dot Com
★ Slavoj Zizek: Lacan's Formulas of Sexuation
★ Josefina Ayerza: Comme des garçons
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