Theft of Jouissance
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Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.98
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > LAUGHTER
Theoretical move: The passage traces a genealogy of Democritus's laughter to argue that his neologism *den* ("less than nothing") anticipates Lacan's objet petit a — an atom of non-negating negation that is neither something nor nothing — and then uses this theoretical framework to analyse racism as a fantasy in which the ethnic Other is figured as a thief of jouissance.
The fantasy of the 'ethnic other' as a thief of enjoyment is a common strategy of deferral, a way of postponing the encounter with the real, with the overwhelming nature of jouissance.