CURRENT SYMPTOMS AND NEWS MANNERS OF JOUISSANCE

This paper presents a discussion about the so called current symptoms and its relations with ways of jouissance. It begins with a definition of what might be the current symptoms before exploring the actual notion of the term and its unfolding about the symptom. In a second moment, it articulates the symptom with ways of jouissance, demonstrating how much jouissance is connected to the symptom. More specifically, it is in the symptom’s meaning that jouissance is found, since it is through meaning that jouissance is connected to the symptom. It is not about reducing jouissance due to the search of pleasure or to search in pleasure the relief of the jouissance’s tension. It is about, in psychoanalysis, to potentialize the jouissance no more connected to the symptom’s meaning, but to articulate it to the sinthome, so the subject can jouir life and not the symptom anymore.