Jouissance (1 of 7): Enjoying in the margins
Linking comments in Freud s Three essays on sexuality to a series of examples ( flying into a rage, wallowing in depression ), we differentiate the Lacanian notion of jouissance from everyday notions of pleasure, highlighting how jouissance ( getting off on, morbid excitation, painful modes of arousal, etc. ) always involves the dimension of the excessive or transgressive. But is jouissance unconscious, and does it exist outside the domain of the symbolic Link to board:
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