Jouissance

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  • noun. Jollity; merriment.
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  • noun. Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
  • noun. The sexual connotation (i.e. orgasm) lacking in the English word "enjoyment", and therefore left untranslated in English editions of the works of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
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    "Lacan introduced the term jouissance as a foundation of the pleasure principle, which, at its furthest extreme in the pleasure/pain dialectic, becomes suffering."
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