jouissance
(fr)
physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain
Jouissance is unbearable. It is not in order to retain their dignity that the workers will revolt [...] no, it is something else altogether, there is no dignity
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7 years ago