jouissance

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
  2. Noun.  The sexual connotation (i.e. orgasm) lacking in the English word "enjoyment", and therefore left untranslated in English editions of the works of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

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