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==Love and Analysis==
What the [[analysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is speak about [[love]].
"The only thing that we do in the analytic discourse is speak about love."<ref>{{S20}} p.77</ref>
==Transference==
[[Love]] arises in [[analytic]] [[treatment]]] as an effect of [[transference]].
==Love and Aggressivity==
[[Lacan]] lays empahsis on the conneciton between [[love]] and [[aggressivity]].
The presence of one implies the presence of the other.
This phenomenon, which [[Freud]] calls '[[ambivalence]]', is considered by [[Lacan]] as one of the great discoveries of [[psychoanalysis]].
==Love and Imaginary==
[[Love]] is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[ego]].
[[Love]] is [[autoerotic]], and has a fundamentally [narcissistic]] [[structure]].
<blockqutoe>"It's one own's ego that one loves in love, one's own ego made real on the imaginary level."<ref>{{S1}} p.142</ref></blockquote>
An [[imaginary]] reciprocity between "loving" and "beinbg loved", which constitutes the [[illusion]] of [[love]].
"To love is, essentially, to wish to be loved."<ref>{{S11}} p.253</ref>
==Love and Deception==
[[Love]] is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] of fusion with the beloved which makes up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relationship]].<ref>{{S20}} p.44</ref>
[[Love]] is deceptive because it involves giving what one does not have (i.e. the [[phallus]])
To [[love]] is "to give what one does not have."<ref>{{S8}} p.147</ref>
Love is directed at what the love-object lacks, at the nothing beyond it.
The object is valued insofar as it comes in the palce of that lack.
==Love and Desire==
Desire is inscribed in the symbolic order.
Love is a metaphor, whereas desire is a metonymy.<ref>{{S8}} p.53</ref>
Love kills desire.
Love is based on a fantasy of oneness with the beloeved and this abolishes the difference which gives rise to desire.<ref>{{S20}} p.46</ref>
First, they are both similar in that neither can be satisfied.
Second, in the dialectic of need/demand/desire, desire is born precisely from the unsatisfied part of [[demand]], which is the demand for [[love]].
==TWO==
From a psychoanalytic point of view, love is the investment in, and ability to be loved by, another without experiencing this love as a subjective threat, such as that represented by the Thing (<i>das Ding</i>) which Freud described in the Project of 1895.
