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The Psychoanalytic Concept of Jouissance and the Kindling Hypothesis [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
This article aims to define the conceptual field of jouissance in Lacanian theory, and put forth the hypothesis of a relationship between certain neurophysiological mechanisms and specific clinical phenomena where jouissance is “kindled” and outside the ...
Yorgos Dimitriadis
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Enjoying extinction: philanthrocapitalism, jouissance, and 'excessive environmentourism' in the South African rhino poaching crisis

Journal of Political Ecology, 2021
From 2007 to 2015, rhino poaching grew rapidly in and around Kruger National Park, South Africa. And though poaching numbers have declined since then, the 'poaching crisis' and its consequences continue to influence rhetoric and practice in the area ...
Stasja Koot
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La jouissance féminine et le maternel en questions

Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 2022
L'auteur se propose de confronter les deux champs contigus du féminin et du maternel à partir des considérations freudiennes sur le “continent noir” qu'est la féminité et de la notion de jouissance féminine déployée par Jacques Lacan.
Jessica Choukroun-Schenowitz
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Richard Rowan’s Search for Other Jouissance in James Joyce’s Exiles

Critical Literary Studies, 2020
This paper traces Jacques Lacan’s theory of jouissance in James Joyce’s Exiles. According to Lacan, there are two kinds of jouissance, namely phallic and Other.
Saman Zoleikhaei
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On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a psychoanalytic perspective [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Jouissance is a Lacanian concept, infamous for being impervious to understanding and which expresses the paradoxical satisfaction that a subject may derive from his symptom.
Ariane eBazan, Ariane eBazan, Sandrine eDetandt   +2 more
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The Clinic of Identifications in the Different Processes of Metamorphosis Into Woman [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This article examines, from a psychoanalytical perspective, the function of identification in the relationship between the subject of the unconscious and his body, his body image, and the other.
Laure Westphal, Thierry Lamote
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Brûler la lettre : la jouissance du fait-divers dans Les Noces rouges

Recherches & Travaux, 2023
Les Noces rouges is studied through the psychanalytic concepts of “letter” and “jouissance”. The letter as an epistle and as a typographic element is a way to reach the jouissance of confusion through the passion of love.
Philippe De Vita
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Objet petit a and Jouissance: A Critical Study of Gaulib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles (2011)

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
The experiences of homosexual individuals are diverse and unique. Suppression of desire is consequential when homosexuality is considered a taboo, and heterosexuality is rooted in a social and cultural organizations.
Sandhya Devi Nithyananda Katta, Kirankumar Nittali   +1 more
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The Vagaries of the Superego

Elementa, 2022
Starting from the distinction between “ideal ego”, “ego-ideal” and “superego” structured from the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real triad made by Lacan, this study investigates how is possible to distinguish the a-sexual social space from the domain of libidinally-
Slavoj Žižek
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The Influence of Lacanian Jouissance on K. G. George Movies

Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism, 2023
This paper explores the influence of Lacanian jouissance on the films of K. G. George, a pivotal figure in shaping the narrative and stylistic ofMalayalam cinema between 1974 and 1998, who passed away on 24th of September 2023.
Nayana Thankachan
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