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SUMMARY : The therapeutic implies a knowledge of the essence of pleasure. We propose a description of its experienced contents (existential and phenomenological description). The pleasure is both enjoyment and significiance. This fact reveals a certain number of implications.
They are :

a) The unity of flesh and of mind.

b) The adhesion of the consciousness to the delightful contents and significations.

c) The possibility of the access to the plenitute. The essence of the pleasure is not the lack; this is a simple moment.

d) The intrinsic link between pleasure and desire.

e) Finally, the very reality of perfection as achievement and plenitude.

The individual is the source of its desire and of its forms. So, beyond the morals, pleasure has an ethical signifiance. It reveals the meaning of desire and of human existence. This is the search for the happy plenitude, wich is given as an experience of being. The pleasure then becomes the metaphor of being. It also reveals the specular structure of consciousness and the value of reciprocity. At last, it can be got as creative, it is a source of invention and freedom. The refective ethic is not an hedonism. It would aim the elevation of pleasure to the level of joy. The pleasure are moments of joy if they are integrated to the entirety of personality, and to all values whish constitue it. The entire enjoymentenable individuals to access to the preferable and to the reciprocal. The ethic of pleasure is here an eudemonism. We have to avoid the nonsense that establishes a link between pleasure and destruction. This link proceed from a tragic culture or from reflective weakness and laziness. The reflective conversion, accomplished with the other, by spoken word and reciprocity, enable the subjects to restore the entirety of their powers and open the access to a joy which is as a being.