Jouissance: A Lacanian Concept

301 Pages·2020·1.445 MB·English

by  Néstor A. Braunstein

Jouissance
SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
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Charles Shepherdson, editor
Jouissance
A LACANIAN CONCEPT
NÉSTOR A. BRAUNSTEIN
TRANSLATED BY
SILVIA ROSMAN
Translation of El goce: un concepto lacaniano (Siglo XXI Editores, 2006)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Braunstein, Néstor A., author.
Title: Jouissance : a Lacanian concept / Néstor A. Braunstein ; Silvia Rosman,
translator.
Other titles: Goce. English
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] | Series:
SUNY series, insinuations: philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032143 | ISBN 9781438479033 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781438479057 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Joy—Psychological aspects. | Psychoanalysis. | Psychoanalysis and
philosophy. | Lacan, Jacques, 1901–1981.
Classification: LCC BF175.5.J69 B7313 2020 | DDC 150.19/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032143
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Contents
Translator’s Note ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Translating Jouissance 1
Silvia Rosman
Part I. Theory
Chapter 1. Jouissance: From Lacan to Freud 13
In the Beginning . . . 13
Jouissance in Freud 20
A Return to Freudian Beginnings 32
Beyond Pleasure 39
Chapter 2. Jouissology, Logic of Jouissance 49
Between Jouissance and Language 49
Jouissance Is (Not) the Satisfaction of a Drive 52
Speech: Diaphragm of Jouissance 59
The Thing and Object @ 67
Castration and the Name-of-the-Father 73
The Barriers to Jouissance 85
The “Causation of the Subject” or Beyond Angst 92
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Chapter 3. Jouissance and Sexuality 101
Equivocations of Sexuality 101
Jouissance of Being, Phallic Jouissance and Jouissance of
the Other 109
Castration as Cause 119
The Three Jouissance(s) and the Mobius Strip 126
Freud (Lacan) or Foucault 131
Chapter 4. Deciphering Jouissance 145
Jouissance Is Ciphered 145
Letter 52 150
Psychoanalysis in Proust’s Way: Jouissance and Time 160
Part II. The Clinic
Chapter 5. Jouissance and Hysteria 175
The Psychoanalyst and the Hysteric 175
In Function of Jouissance 182
Hysteria and Savoir 190
Chapter 6. Perversion, Disavowal of Jouissance 197
The “Positive” Side of Neurosis? 197
The Perverse Phantasm: Savoirjouir 202
Perversion and Feminine Jouissance 210
Chapter 7. @-diction of Jouissance 217
Psychosis Is Not Chosen 217
Psychosis and Discourse 222
Drug @-diction 227
Chapter 8. Jouissance and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Experience 235
A Langagière Practice 235
Pro(pulsions) and Their Vicissitudes 238
The Duty of Desire 243
The Act and Guilt 247
The Immunological Analogy 252
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Letter to His Father 257
Give Up on Desire? 261
For Three Jouissance(s), Three Superegos 266
On Love in Psychoanalysis 269
Notes 275
Index 285

Translator’s Note
Where English translations are available, works are cited according to the
page number of the translation. Where no English translation is listed
in Abbreviations, the translations are my own. Untranslatable Lacanian
concepts and neologisms are explained fully in the body of the text.
I would like to thank Néstor Braunstein for his enthusiasm, sugges-
tions and clarifications throughout the translation process, as well as for
generously providing me with his later writings, conferences and other
texts. I would also like to thank Adriana Passini and Gabriel Riera for
their invaluable comments on the manuscript. Much appreciation goes to
the anonymous reviewer and to Charles Shepherdson, the series editor,
who supported this project from the start and was key to its fruition.
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