What does jouissance mean in English exactly?
I'm not sure it has a standard English meaning in everyday usage, but it's used in translations of Lacan's writings/seminars to mean exactly what he used it to mean in French: which is somewhere between the meaning you've got in mind and a more general sense of '(intense) enjoyment'.
You'll also find it used in something like the latter sense by Barthes, at least in some of his writings: try
S/Z, for example, where it's the kind of pleasure one takes in a 'writerly' text (rather than the more sedate, less actively involved, enjoyment one derives from a 'readerly' text).