jouissance

noun

1. Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   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.

2. A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.

   countable, uncountable

   Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body.

Where it comes from

From Middle French jouissance, from jouir (“to enjoy”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry jouissance (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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