The subsequent lack of jouissance leads to a doomed quest for this lost plenitude. In literary and cultural theory, for Barthes, textual bliss in reading which disrupts expectations and challenges the reader to participate which he associates with writerly texts as distinct from textual pleasure plaisir : comfortable reading that confirms one's cultural assumptions, which he associates with the closed forms of readerly texts: see classic realist texts.
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