Jouissance

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  • n. Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
  • n. The sexual connotation (i.e. orgasm) lacking in the English word "enjoyment", and therefore left untranslated in English editions of the works of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Jollity; merriment.
  • Word Usage
    "Lacan introduced the term jouissance as a foundation of the pleasure principle, which, at its furthest extreme in the pleasure/pain dialectic, becomes suffering."
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    jollity    merriment   
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