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beyond the pleasure principle" linked to the partial drive. Yet according to Lacan, the result of transgressing the pleasure principle is not more pleasure, but instead pain, since there is only a certain amount of pleasure that the subject can bear. In his later seminar "The Other Side of
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to describe a form of women's pleasure or sexual rapture that combines mental, physical and spiritual aspects of female experience, bordering on mystical communion: "explosion, diffusion, effervescence, abundance...takes pleasure (jouit) in being limitless". Cixous maintains that
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Gilbert, Sandra M. Introduction. The Newly Born Woman. By Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clement, 1975. Trans. Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
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is ineffable, for both women and men may experience it, yet know nothing about it. Jane Gallop has noted that "it is impossible to give an adequate translation of
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describes a form of women's pleasure or sexual rapture, which is a fusion of mental, physical, and spiritual aspects bordering on mystical communion.
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is, "a pleasure... linked to cultural enjoyment and identity, to the cultural enjoyment of identity, to a homogenising movement of the ego." As
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results, then, from the operation of the structures of signification through which the subject knows himself or herself;
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untranslated in order to help convey its specialised usage. Lacan first developed his concept of an opposition between
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Barthes, Roland. "The Death of the Author." Image—Music—Text. Trans. and ed. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill, 1977
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in his Seminar "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis" (1959–1960). Lacan considered that "there is a
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prevents women from finding their own fully empowered voice. The concept of
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is the source of a woman's creative power and that the suppression of
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Psychoanalysis" (1969–1970), Lacan introduced the concept of "surplus-
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism
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What Does Lacan Say About Jouissance? Article on LacanOnline.com
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is explored by Cixous and other authors in their writings on
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is considered the source of a woman's creative power.
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An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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is a transcendent state that represents freedom from
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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[ʒwisɑ̃sə]
French language
untranslatable
continental philosophy
psychoanalysis
transgression
subject
pleasure principle
Jacques Lacan
suffering
castration complex
aggression
death drives
feminist theory
a series of articles
Psychoanalysis

Psychosexual development
Psychosocial development (Erikson)
Unconscious
Preconscious
Consciousness
Psychic apparatus
Id, ego and superego
Ego defenses
Projection
Introjection

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