jouissance
- noun
- /ʒuːɪˈsɑːns/
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- The literary work invokes a deep sense of jouissance, engaging readers in intense pleasure and enjoyment.
- jouissance and pleasure
Examples
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The Edenic lyric can become more a relentless trap than jouissance, less tenable and more threatened than some feminist criticism would suggest.
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The artist's reward is, again, the jouissance (Barthes, Plaisir 11) hinted at in the final words of the paragraph.
Academic text (1998) -
Here again is the insistence of love's jouissance at the heart of this verbal exchange.
Academic text (1992) -
Immediate, unmediated representation brings jouissance; the "tel" rejoins the Text.
Academic text (2000) -
The variously grouped, well-tried subjects were arranged to be seen for pleasure and jouissance.
Academic text (1993) -
Yet the attempt to arrive at the hysterical reader's jouissance was destined to fail because the hysteric loses language and cannot speak of the text.
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Of course, from that point, we are led back to Labe's conception of writing qua jouissance advocated in the dedicatory epistle.
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The first reading hallucinates a text of pleasure, corresponding to the lover's discourse; the second describes the troubling jouissance to which loving writing brings the frantic lover of books.
Academic text (2000) -
His eroticism, then, disguises or symbolizes all creative endeavors with the jouissance mentioned by Barthes (Plaisir 15).
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Romanticism is pitted against realism, sentimentality against modernism, modernism against postmodernism, representation against jouissance, and so forth.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
The feeling of pleasure you get from something
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9.6
A feeling of great joy and energy about life
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7.5
A cheerful, lively feeling that people show when they enjoy themselves
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2.7
A happy, lively feeling that makes people smile
A strong feeling of passion or a sense of burning heat in writing
A feeling of great happiness and pleasure
A quality that gives people enjoyment
A happy, light feeling that makes people smile and laugh
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jouissance comes from French jouir 'to enjoy' and is related to the English word joy. So jouissance means a very strong, often overwhelming kind of pleasure that goes beyond simple satisfaction.