English Explanatory Dictionary

jouissance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

jouissance jouissances

Etymology

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

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