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Currents in Electronic Literacy


Realism and a General Economy of the Link
secured pleasure: an aside

by Adrian Miles

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An aside: secured pleasure is in contradistinction to Barthes' jouissance, which is a pleasure which is not secured by a return to the ego. In the terms utilised by Bataille, which I shall use, jouissance is a pleasure of the text which is a general, rather than restricted, economy.



Please cite this article as Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall 2001 (5),
<http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall01/miles/securedp.htm>.