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The [[French ]] noun ''[[jouissance]]'' means "[[enjoyment]]" -- both in the sense of [[pleasure]] and in the sense in which one speaks of the [[enjoyment]] of rights and privileges -- but it has a sexual connotation (i.e. "[[sexuality|orgasm]]) lacking in the [[English]] word, and is therefore left untranslated in most English editions of [[Lacan]]. means approximately "[[enjoyment]]".
''[[Jouissance]]'' is a French noun meaning approximately "[[enjoyment]]".