In French, jouissance means enjoyment, in terms both of rights and property, and of sexual orgasm — the latter has a meaning partially lacking in the English word `enjoyment`. Poststructuralism has developed the latter sense of jouissance in complex ways, so as to denote a transgressive, excessive kind of pleasure linked to the division and sp..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouissance
Jou'is·sance noun [ French, from jouir to enjoy, from Latin gaudere to rejoice.] Jollity; merriment. [ Obsolete] Spenser. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/J/12