Jouissance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jouissance is a noun meaning (poststructuralism) A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
Meaning
(poststructuralism) A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
Example Sentences
Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body.
friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome.
Word Forms
- jouissances
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include joyance, joyancy, delice, lust, joydom, pleasure.
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