the servant (mis)perceives the Master as amassing jouissance, and gets back (steals from the Master) little crumbs of jouissance.
these small pleasures (the awareness that he can also manipullate the Master), silently tolerated by the Master, not only fail to present any threat to the Master but, in fact, constitute the ‘libidinal bribery’ which maintains the servant’s servitude. - SLAVOJ ZIZEK















