Darian Leader, "Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction" (Polity Press, 2021)
New Books in Psychology
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Women's Juissance
I found it really refreshing to be hearing some new voices a the way you brought them in. A so o so then i think through the book, you're tracing the development of lecan's theories of jurisance. One of the ideas in encore is that women experience a powerful jouissance, but are unable to say anything about it. You react to this idea by saying doesn't this just replicate the familiar trope of the woman as enigma? And at the same time managing to ignore the very rich and precise formulations about arousal and sexuality that women have made and continued to make.
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