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Jouissance

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Jou´is`sance
n.1.Jollity; merriment.
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Although English lacks equivalent words for expressing the range of meaning of jouissance as Barthes used the term, jouissance is associated with texts that disrupt readers' assumptions.
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In any case, the seventh edition of the Gwangju Biennale embodied not so much a sense of sombre, calculated remembrance of its historic origins, but instead a kind of modest jouissance.
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