Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

by Darian Leader

Book Overview

Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different issues that should be distinguished rather than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150954884X
• ISBN13: 9781509548842
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"