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...> this ''[[jouissance]]'' is "of the order of the infinite," like mystical ecstasy.<ref>{{S20}} p. 44</ref> [[Women]] may [[experience]] this ''[[jouissance]

In ''Encore'' (whose cover shows Bernini's ''The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa'' as it stands in the [[Church]] of Santa Maria della Vitt

...ulptor Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). This piece shows St Teresa swooning in ecstasy while pierced by an arrow from an angel poised above her. Lacan comments: This experience of unspeakable ecstasy is what Lacan calls Other or [[feminine jouissance]]. The idea of Other jou

...ulptor Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). This piece shows St Teresa swooning in ecstasy while pierced by an arrow from an angel poised above her. Lacan comments: This experience of unspeakable ecstasy is what Lacan calls Other or [[feminine jouissance]]. The [[idea]] of Other

...d work, accomplishing the active gestures, while the woman, transported in ecstasy, passively endures it and stares into the air… In the course of the [[psy

...rker, courting the disapproval of the village elders. After the [[sexual]] ecstasy of their honeymoon Bess can't bear having Jan [[return]] to the rigs, so sh

...ect is the $ void which emerges when a substance is "dispossessed" through ecstasy. Hair-splitting as it may appear, this distinction is crucial: is the statu

...ities, and the mystical experience [[signal]] the [[withdrawal]] from this ecstasy. Lewis thus refers to the experience as the "odd [[thing]];" he mentions it

...ker, courting the disapproval of the village elders. After the [[sexual]] ecstasy of their honeymoon Bess can't bear having Jan [[return]] to the rigs, so sh

...iterally, astonishment), from which the modern [[word]] [[exstasis]] and [[ecstasy]] are derived.

...oing beyond the phallus, it is of the order of the infinite, like mystical ecstasy.

...s found their [[pleasure]] together; they found in murder a sacred form of ecstasy. 'I am certain,' said Christine, 'that in another life I was supposed to be Jus,t as women alone can [[experience]] ecstasy without [[knowing]] what its nature is, so these women were able to act out

...tic mode of being, notably through [[music]], passionate love, or mystical ecstasy. Perhaps, after all, what fascinated [[Narcissus]] was the sight—beyond h

...n normal mechanisms fail (depersonalization and certain states of mystical ecstasy). Carl Gustav [[Jung]], although he prefers to [[speak]] in [[terms]] of "e

...int where he says that if it weren't a reference to Hades or a ceremony of ecstasy, it would be nothing more than an odious [[phallic]] ceremony." <a title=""

...real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God’s private concubine. Freud’s famous case study of Schreber eleva

...of the fusional conception of love. Love is not that which makes a One in ecstasy through a Two supposedly given. This rejection is in its foundation identic