As a response to and a rejection of middle class culture, punk functioned to create a sphere in which the more revolting or disgusting something was, the better. Influenced by the garage band revival of the late 1960s, punk adapted the idea that the music being produced did not have to be good or meaningful; rather, it functioned to directly oppose any form of insightful meaning. It was played and produced for the sole purpose of rejecting all things mainstream prior to it becoming mainstream. The genre of punk qualifies as La Jouissance because it draws the listener towards a connection to the larger “whole,” draws pleasure from pain, and helps one lose a sense of their ego. Punk began in the 1970s as a working-class response to the poor