Paradox of Jouissance
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.80
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **The Paradox of Jouissance**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that jouissance names a paradoxical satisfaction derived from transgression that cannot be dissolved by moral or clinical labelling, because desire is constitutively produced by the Law's prohibition—a structure epitomised by das Ding as the Sovereign Good—making any naive reconciliationist programme in psychoanalysis untenable.
Lacan (1992, p. 193) refers to the deriving of satisfaction from what is believed to be bad for ourselves and/or others as the 'paradox of jouissance'