Jouissance Appropriation by the Other
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.189
SEXUAL ANXIETIES
Theoretical move: The passage uses a clinical vignette to theorize how the subject's jouissance can be appropriated by the Other, resulting in a felt loss of self and subjective destitution, structurally analogous to a binge-purge cycle — yielding a pattern where total surrender to the Other's jouissance alternates with defensive withdrawal into a private world.
she thus essentially incorporated his jouissance into her own, 'made it hers.'