jouissance

I went into the store in the skyway and gave them $1.34 and they gave me the cranberry kind

ate dozens of cough drops...

you do know that 'jouissance' means two different case sensitive things right ?

i ate bangers n' mash while listening to m. mayer's immer mix, read some father brown

It means something else in capitals, Mike? => it means something else if you say it while standing, as established on another great thread.

evidently in legal french it can mean "use" or "usage".

and as i recall barthes uses it more often than kristeva, or else she borrowed it from him. they both mean it in the sense of a text being bent or broken in a direction opposite of it's "original intent" or something like that.

if i knew more idiomatic french this might actually be funny.

You can give yourself jouissance? Why has no one ever told me this?

tracer did they not have health classes when you were small?

Quick web search definition:

"JOUISSANCE: The usual English translation, "enjoyment," does not carry the sexually orgasmic connotation that the French does in addition to the idea of taking pleasure in something. In Lacanian circles, jouissance is distinguished from pleasure ( plaisir) in that the latter indicates simply the search for psychic
balance ( homeostasis) through the release of tension, whereas the former is supposed to be a perpetual state in violation of the pleasure principle. There is thus an implicit analogy drawn between demand and desire. See transgression. Julia Kristeva (see Kristevan) offers a slight development and a bit of wordplay:
she uses plaisir for sexual pleasure and jouissance (or j'ouïs sens, "I heard meaning") as total joy due to the presence of meaning."