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
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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, 2 months ago
The psychoanalytic answer is: jouissance (Lacan's term designating excessive pleasure coinciding with pain).
on the obstacle that prevents the fusion of different cultures: we can't really understand our own jouissance, so we project this onto the Other, "attributing to this Other full access to a consistent jouissance")
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7 years, 2 months ago
both equally concerned with jouissance, with literary bliss
on Barthes and Nabokov
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7 years, 7 months ago
The frantic jouissance of seizing the day, gathering rosebuds, downing an extra glass, and living like there’s no tomorrow is a desperate strategy for outwitting death, one which seeks pointlessly to cheat it rather than to make something of it.
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7 years, 5 months ago
the dreamworld can be thought of as the world of jouissance
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6 years, 11 months ago
there is no place for the Real of jouissance in Heidegger's edifice
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7 years, 4 months ago
the stupid jouissance of rave music
on Gangnam Style
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7 years, 4 months ago
Why the need to decaffeinate the Other, to deprive him or her of their raw substance of jouissance?
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7 years, 5 months ago