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'''''Jouissance''''' is a [[French language|French]] term which translated means "[[enjoyment]]" and is contrasted with ''[[plaisir]]''. In every sense of the word it is whatever "gets you off". Something that gives the [[subject]] a way out of its [[normative]] subjectivity through [[transcendent]] [[Bliss (feeling)|bliss]] whether that bliss or [[orgasmic]] [[rapture]] be found in [[text]]s, [[film]]s, works of [[art]] or [[sexual]] spheres; [[excess]] as opposed to [[utility]]. It is a popular term in [[postmodernism]] and [[queer theory]] used by [[Roland Barthes]], [[Jacques Lacan]], [[Judith Butler]], and others. [[Leo Bersani]] considers jouissance as intrinsically self-shattering, disruptive of a 'coherent [[self]]'.
For Barthes (1977, p.9) ''plaisir'' is, "a pleasure...linked to cultural enjoyment and identity, to the cultural enjoyment of identity, to a homogenising movement of the ego." As [[Richard Middleton]] (1990, p.261) puts it, "''Plaisir'' results, then, from the operation of the structures of signification through which the subject knows himself or herself; ''jouissance'' fractures these structures."
==Source==
*Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music''. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
**Barthes (1977).
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