Jouissance
Lacan's Early Work: Jouissance As Pleasure, Lacan's Work Of The Late 1950s And 1960s: Jouissance Versus Pleasure
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's (1901–1981) use of the term jouissance, like most other Lacanian concepts, shifts over the years and can be difficult to pin down. Translating from the French, jouissance can be rendered literally as "enjoyment," "both in the sense of deriving pleasure from something, and in the legal sense of exercising property rights" (Evans, p. 1). The term has sexual connotations as well, also meaning orgasm in French.
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- Jouissance - Lacan's Early Work: Jouissance As Pleasure
- Jouissance - Lacan's Work Of The Late 1950s And 1960s: Jouissance Versus Pleasure
- Jouissance - Lacan In The 1970s: Masculine And Feminine Jouissances
- Jouissance - Feminist And Political Applications Of Jouissance
- Jouissance - Bibliography
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