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Quel rapport y a-t-il entre la jouissance et la joie ? Accéder à la joie, c'est "se réjouir intérieurement". La joie témoigne d'un bonheur partagé ; la manière dont elle se communique dans le don dit la vérité d'une présence intime, irréductible à un objet de jouissance au sens juridique (avoir l'usufruit d'un bien) ou sexuel (profiter de la possession par les sens). Elle atteste la présence de l'Autre à l'intime de soi. Il y a une jouissance manifeste et répétitive que tout psychanalyste rencontre : celle qui consiste à épuiser, en le niant, le désir - dans la recherche d'un rassasiement qui ne dure jamais. Avec elle, l'homme ne se sent vivre qu'en vivant contre la vie, dans une rivalité jalouse et exclusive. Dans une certaine manière de vouloir jouir jusqu'au bout, de s'éclater ou d'aimer à mort, la fine pointe de la jouissance se répercute en écho de dérision. Au coeur de la folie ou de la perversion, c'est l'intensité de la sensation qui se donne pour la Vérité ; celle-ci n'est plus ce qui parle, mais ce qui se sent. Cette modalité jouissive du sensationnel exclut la parole et/ou le sens. Elle clôt la libido sur le même. Elle interdit au plaisir d'être la nécessaire médiation qui noue l'esprit et la chair dans une rencontre de sujets incarnés. Fermée à la parole, elle alimente la jouissance exclusive des sens. Elle enferme l'homme en lui-même, dans l'intensité d'un fantasme pris pour le réel et dont la répétition l'aliène. Faute de vivre de l'altérité au coeur du même, le désir tourne en déris, et la parole en dérision.

Resentment --- Joy

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Dialectic. --- Resentment --- Philosophy.

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This book is a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s provocative question: How much and how does ressentiment condition our daily life? During the twentieth century we witnessed veritable eruptions of this insidious emotion, and we are still witnesses of its proliferation at various levels of society. This book aims to explore, according to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, the anthropological and social assumptions that make up ressentiment and to investigate its genesis. The analysis of ressentiment shows that this emotion evolves from mimetic desire: it is an affective experience that people have when a rival denies them opportunities or valuable resources (including status) that they consider to be socially accessible. It is a specific figure of mimetic desire that is typical of contemporary society, where the equality that is proclaimed at the level of values contrasts with striking inequalities of power and access to material resources. This dichotomy generates increasing tension between highly competitive and egalitarian mimetic desires and growing social inequalities. The ressentiment is ambiguous, and its ambiguity is that of mimetic desire itself, which we cannot dismiss from our lives. In that it provides occasions of conflict and baseness, ressentiment can fuel violence, discord, and injustice, but it also can open opportunities for growth and justice, and for inventing institutions that are better adapted to the transformations of our contemporary society.

Desire (Philosophy) --- Resentment. --- Emotions --- Philosophy

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Discussions about the ‘crisis of representative democracy’ have dominated scholarly and public discourse for some time now. But what does this phrase actually entail, and what is its relevance today? How do citizens themselves experience, feel and respond to this ‘crisis’? Bitter-Sweet Democracy grapples with the complexities of these questions in the context of citizens’ relations to politics in Belgium — a nation that has experienced political instability and protests as well as social mobilization and democratic vitality in recent years. This timely and compelling volume offers new, empirical evidence on the state of trust, democracy and representation in Belgium; it further introduces an innovative methodological and conceptual framework to study this ‘crisis’, specifically by developing the concept of political resentment. The essays in this collection span diverse topics, from citizens’ conceptions of democracy itself and the expression of political resentment among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, to the influence of different emotional dimensions of resentment on protest behaviours. By adopting a distinctive affective lens and by building upon the specific case of Belgium, this volume contributes to the broader conversation on political resentment and the critical role of emotions in contemporary politics. [text taken from publisher's website]

Democracy --- Public opinion --- Resentment --- Belgium