jouissance

Etymology

From Middle French jouissance, from jouir (“to enjoy”).

noun

1. (obsolete) Enjoyment, delight, pleasure.
   friendship is enjoyed according as it is desired, it is neither bred, nor nourished, nor increaseth but in jovissance, as being spirituall, and the minde being refined by use and custome. , Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 184
2. In poststructuralism, a transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.