The Pervert’s Guide to Computer Programming

Languages

Psychoanalysis and Software

Why Psychoanalysis?Isn’t psychoanalysis foolishness?

Isn’t Psychoanalysis Foolishness?

What is Enjoyment (Jouissance)?Jouissance is the French word for enjoyment of rights, property, and sexual

orgasm

Made popular in psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan (Philosopher and Psychoanalyst)

Describes a person’s relationship with the object of desire

Related mostly to the ‘death drive’ (as opposed to the more well known ‘sex drive’)

Goes beyond the ‘pleasure principle’

Describes how an excessive enjoyment comes from staging our own failure to reach the ‘object of desire’

Enjoyment is Confusing!

Things to remember

Enjoyment does *not* mean pleasure or happiness!

Assumes that there is an object of desire.

The object of desire is *not* the cause of desire!

You can never reach the object of desire, but you can reach the cause of desire

There are rules that regulate minimal distance between you and the object of desire

What are the Categories of Enjoyment?

Descriptions of Enjoyment

Categories of Rules

Explicit rules are the written rules

E.g. the rules of chess

Implicit rules are the unwritten rules

E.g. etiquette

Obscene rules are those rules that you ‘can’t be seen to know’

E.g. where the bodies are buried; local atrocities and genocides

What are the popular programming languages?

Psychopath Languages

Sociopath Languages

Perversion Languages

Hysterical Languages

Obsessional Languages

Depression Languages

Melancholy Languages