″Jouissance in Pain″: Jouissance as a ″Sinthome″ in Net Literature
ZHOU Zhiqiang
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( School of Literature, Nankai University, Tianjing 300071, China)
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2023-06-08
Abstract
The so called ″jouissance″ is not only the ″imaginative satisfaction″ of life′s desires, but also the construction of an allegory of the ″realistic lack″ of desire. Jouissance is not an ordinary pleasure, but an indulgent ″compulsory pleasure″. In this case, ″jouissance″ is ″frustration″ and ″jouissance″ is the scarcity present of ″frustration″. It is not the satisfaction of a mere wish or a desire, but what Lacan calls″jouissance in pain″. Reality ( the symbolic and the imaginary) has an ingenious plan of expulsion of the″ jouissance ″; at the same time, the ″jouissance″ performs a tenacious ″castrate″ of reality. In this way,″jouissance″ becomes a ″sinthome″ of jouissance indulgence; it seems to offer only pleasure satisfaction, but it harbors a recapitulation of trauma. The ″jouissance″ is fueled by an extraordinarily wild imagination because it harbors a recapitulation of trauma.