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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Praetorian

Jouissance refers to an excessive pleasure and pain, to that something extra that twists pleasure into a fascinating, even unbearable intensity. We might think here of the difference between friendship and passionate love. Whereas spending time with friends may be pleasurable, falling in love can be agonizing. Yet it is a special kind of agony, an agony that makes us feel more alive, more fully present, more in tune with what makes life worth living, and dying for, than anything else. Jouissance, then, is this extra, this excess beyond the given, measurable, rational, and useful. It cannot be reduced to the seemingly rational terms of cost/benefit analysis. Nor can jouissance be allocated through the weighing of pros and cons. Instead, jouissance is that "something extra" fot the sake of which we do what might otherwise seem irrational, counter productive, ...

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