Jouissance (1 of 7): Enjoying in the margins

Linking comments in Freud’s ’Three essays on sexuality’ to a series of examples (’flying into a rage’, ’wallowing in depression’), we differentiate the Lacanian notion of jouissance from everyday notions of pleasure, highlighting how jouissance (’getting off on’, ’morbid’ excitation’, ’painful modes of arousal’, etc.) always involves the dimension of the excessive or transgressive. But is jouissance unconscious, and does it exist outside the domain of the symbolic? Link to board: