jouissance

• Time to relinquish the easy jouissance of impotent acting-out. —  infinite thØught
• First, he considers Jacques-Alain Miller's suggestion that after the fantasy is traversed there is a kind of jouissance in language, a kind of pleasure in meaningless, empty speech. —  I cite
• In so far as, in l'apparole, we are thus dealing with an idiotic-happy circuit of an apparatus which produces jouissance, is this not the very definition of drive? —  I cite
• This is a clever and complex rendering of a reason to "sing the praise of the penis," and Bersani is quite right that men have successfully convinced women that the jouissance of ejaculation has little to do with male passivity. —  1tbm
• On the surface, he's dealing with his middle age in typical crisis fashion; wants jouissance and sees it in her .. while at the same time she's wrestling with a desire for objects (houses, clothes) when really she feels nothing for anything - even as she gives herself to a younger man to taunt her older suitor, she convinces herself it's fakery and pretence - a Jenny Haniver Orgasm. —  An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

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