Jouissance according to Lacan and others

Jouissance encapsulates, in fact, different ideas: a full and complete satisfaction, especially regarding sensual matters; and the possibility of extracting from an object the pleasures or the advantages it might offer, and—sometimes—of having acquired the right to do so. Jouissance is the acme of unchecked pleasure where the subject loses itself in ecstasy, the orgiastic pinnacle which implies that any obstacle preventing one’s access to the desired pleasure has been removed. The gaze J. Lacan brings to bear upon Bernini’s Santa Teresa exposes, at the summit of sacrificial mysticism, an ecstasy which melts the gaze. The super-ego is the prohibitor of a complete jouissance ; the prohibition of incest bears witness to the impossibility of this ever coming into the real. The paradox of Lacanian theory is that its extreme sophistication often leads to the banalities found in popular expressions of common sense.