Leader's stated aim in writing Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction is to go beyond the term jouissance as a catch-all for any symptom, and to “encourage a questioning of the term.” Any reader looking for a single categorical definition of the term will be disappointed. Those looking for an in-depth discussion of drive theory will be quite satisfied. Although Leader addresses the reader as “we Lacanians,” one need not be initiated to derive a great deal about the symptoms of neurosis, the function and limitation of language and the mind's ability to trick itself. This is accomplished on the premise that the body is the force behind the drive and the mind is its functionary.