jouissance

noun2

1. •
   A transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and splitting of the subject involved.

   • Instead Lyotard suggests that the worker experiences jouissance, a masochistic pleasure, in the imposed ‘mad destruction’ of their body. — 2013
2. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1603