Something of a polemic to encourage Lacanian psychoanalysts （Leader himself included） to expand the theoretical complexity of the term jouissance， not to reduce it to a catch-all term for resistance to signification or excess but to differentiate its sources and effects。 Leader runs through all the phases of Lacan's use of the term chronologically， all the while branching out to discussions of Freud and early post-Freudian psychoanalysts and making links with other schools and theories of psycho Something of a polemic to encourage Lacanian psychoanalysts （Leader himself included） to expand the theoretical complexity of the term jouissance， not to reduce it to a catch-all term for resistance to signification or excess but to differentiate its sources and effects。 Leader runs through all the phases of Lacan's use of the term chronologically， all the while branching out to discussions of Freud and early post-Freudian psychoanalysts and making links with other schools and theories of psychoanalysis。 The wealth of clinical examples is especially interesting。 。。。more