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The notion of jouissance is virtually absent from Freudian terminology. In his observations of infantile sexuality, however, he retains the search for “satisfaction” ( Befriedigung) in infants, a satisfaction that is above all the cessation of an experience of displeasure. Freud then observes the experience of “pleasure” ( Lust) in the child as an experience that is associated at first with the “gender drive” (Geschlechtstrieb), an impulse anterior to the sexual drive ( Sexualtrieb). The gender drive has long been ignored by translators, who have unduly assimilated the sexual drive, whereas the gender drive precedes the latter in the construction of the body of the child and in his/her quest for identity. The power drive that the child then engages in can lead him/her to seek out jouissance—albeit in the form of assuming power over the other—before being able to define and accept him/herself as a being separated from the mother, an autonomous being in the elaboration of his/her own body.