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'Jouissance' and 'foreclosure' are important in [[Psychoanalysis]] and [[Jacques Lacan|Lacanian]] psychoanalysis and are even related to each other as they complement each other as if they are in the same network. 'Jouissance' refers to ecstasy which gets lost upon entering the 'symbolic order' and the continuous search for this plentitude of ecstacy due to its lack. In the case of Freud, it was an individual deriving '[[death drive]]', which has been revised by Lacan. Feminist psychoanalytic interpretation of 'jouissance' is premised on feminine libidinal drive being repressed by the 'symbolic order'. <ref>[[Psychoanalysis]]</ref> 


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