Schadenfreude Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. "Schadenfreude" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of "Schaden", "damage, harm", and "Freude", "joy". The German
The Pleasure of the Text rejecting the established conventions of literature including the form, function and style of the novel as it came to be understood from the 19th through the earlier half of the 20th century. The Pleasure of the Text The Pleasure of the Text () is a 1973 book by Roland Barthes. "The Pleasure of the Text" was written in French and later translated into English. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about literary theory. He divides the effects of texts into two: "plaisir" ("pleasure") and "jouissance", translated as "bliss" but the French word also carries the meaning of "orgasm". The