On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a psychoanalytic perspective
Jouissance is a Lacanian concept, infamous for being impervious to understanding and which expresses the paradoxical satisfaction that a subject may derive from his symptom. On the basis of Freud’s experience of satisfaction we have proposed a first working definition of jouissance as the (benefit g...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00709/full |