Barthes and Pleasure

- Scientific Barthes: Took Saussure's structural linguistics and developed it further into sign systems

- Hedonist (the more you enjoy it the better it is) Barthes: Wanted to think about what's left out from literature and why we enjoy it

- Makes the significant connection between pleasure and post-structuralism

- Texts that, contents fills and grants euphoria

- The ideal text of meaning, the transparent text, the text of the signified

- The kind of book in which people recommend it, the reader feels involved with the book

- Generic endings which provide satisfaction

- The text that is linked to comfortable practices of reading

- The text that confirms our assumptions

- The text that has a safe relationship to language

- The text that engages the mind

- The text that disturbs, empties, and grants jouissance

- The material text, the opaque text, the text of the signifier

- The attention is drawn to the words - we are forced to acknowledge the fact that we are reading

- The meaning isn't obvious

- The text that imposes a state of loss

- The text that engages the body

- The text that is radically materialistic (the test of the signifier)

- The text that unsettles our assumptions

- There is a division between texts of Plaiser and Jouissance - there you can be no pure version of each other - it needs to be mixed

- Still a principle of organisation

- Excessive

- Subtractive

- Perverse

- Cold