Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:39:16 -0700
From: wardhunt-AT-cadvision.com (Ward/Hunter)
Subject: Re: jouissance


>Sorry if I am interupting any discussions out there, but my wife and I are
>each doing papers where we could use some more information about the word
>jouissance.  I am re-reading Drucilla Cornell's book Beyond Accomodation
>currently, and am also going back through Speculum of the Other Woman,
>which is the most originary point I can find for this word in gender
>studies.  I was wondering if anyone can tell me more about the word (I
>don't speak French), and where the word was first popularized for gender
>studies, eg, was it Lacan, and if so, where?
>
>Nick
>zukinx-AT-cougarnet.byu.edu

Try Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary edited by Elizabeth
Wright published by Basil Blackwell Ltd 1992 ISBN # 0-631-18347-7
jouissance on page 185

Cyndy Ward
Calgary, Canada