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Literary theory

the disruptive bliss a text can give by unsettling the reader's historical, cultural and psychological assumptions, set against comfortable pleasure.

In literary theory, jouissance refers to the disruptive bliss a text can give by unsettling the reader's historical, cultural and psychological assumptions, set against comfortable pleasure. This meaning comes from Barthes (1975) in The pleasure of the text.[1]

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  1. Barthes, R. (1975). The pleasure of the text. Noonday Press. ISBN 9780809013807

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