jouissance

psychology

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In Slavoj Žižek: The Sublime Object of Ideology
…but also one that incites jouissance, an excessive and simultaneously painful kind of enjoyment derived from transgressing the superego’s own prohibitions. According to Žižek, the experience of jouissance is the necessary but hidden complement of institutional authority, operating as what he called the “obscene underside of the law.” The experience…
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