"[[love]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[amour]]'')
[[Lacan]] argues that it is impossible to say anything meaningful or sensible about [[love (''amour'')]].<ref>{{S8}} p.57</ref>
==Love and Analysis==What Indeed, the [[analysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is moment one starts to speak about [[love]], one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p.17</ref>
"The only thing GIven these views, it might seem surprising that we do in the analytic discourse is speak [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a great deal of his [[seminar]] precisely to speaking about [[love]]."<ref>{{S20}} p.77</ref>
==Transference==However, in doing so, [[LoveLacan]] arises in is merely demonstrating what the [[analyticanalysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic treatment]]] as an effect of [[transference]], for "the only thing that we do in the analytic discourse is speak about love."<ref>{{S20}} p.77</ref>---
[[Love]] is located by [[Lacan]] as a purely imaginary phenomenon, although it has effects in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] (one of those effects being to produce "a veritable subduction of the symbolic").<ref>{{S1}} p.142</ref>
==Love and Aggressivity==[[Lacan]] lays empahsis on the conneciton between [[loveLove]] is autoerotic, and has a fundamentally narcissistic [[aggressivitystructure]]since "it's one's own ego that one loves in love, one's own ego made real on the imaginary level."<ref>{{S1}} p. 142</ref>
The presence [[imaginary]] nature of one implies the presence of the other[[love]] leads [[Lacan]] to oppose all those [[analyst]]s who posit [[love]] as an ideal in [[psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p.8</ref>
This phenomenon, which [[Freud]] calls '[[ambivalence]]', is considered by [[Lacan]] as one of the great discoveries of [[psychoanalysis]].---
==Love and Imaginary==[[Love]] is involves an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs reciprocity, since "to the field of the [[ego]].[[Love]] love is [[autoerotic]], and has a fundamentally [narcissistic]] [[structure]]essentially, to wish to be loved."<ref>{{S11}} p.253</ref>
<blockqutoe>It is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved"It's one own's ego that one loves in constitutes the illusion of [[love]], one'and this is what distinguishes it from the [[order]] of the [[drive]]s own ego made real on the imaginary level, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure activity."<ref>{{S1S11}} p.142200</ref></blockquote>
An [[imaginary]] reciprocity between "loving" and "beinbg loved", which constitutes the [[illusion]] of [[love]].---
"To love [[Love]] is, essentially, to wish to be lovedan illusory [[fantasy]] of fusion with the beloved which makes up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relationship]]."<ref>{{S11S20}} p.25344</ref>
==Love and Deception==[[Love]] This is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] of fusion with especially clear in the beloved which makes up for the [[absence]] asexual concept of any [[sexual relationshipcourtly love]].<ref>{{S20}} p.4465</ref>
---[[Love]] is deceptive because it involves giving what one does not have (i.e. the [[phallus]]) To [[lovetruth|deceptive]] 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.
<blockquote>"As a specular mirage, love is essentially deception."<ref>{{S11}} p.268</ref></blockquote>
==Love and Desire==Desire It is inscribed in the symbolic orderdeceptive because it involves giving what one does not have (i.Love is a metaphor, whereas desire is a metonymye.<ref>{{S8}} p.53</ref>Love kills desire.Love the [[phallus]]); to love is based on a fantasy of oneness with the beloeved and this abolishes the difference which gives rise "to desiregive what one does not have."<ref>{{S20S8}} p.46147</ref>
First, they are both similar in that neither can be satisfied.Second, in the dialectic of need/demand/desire, desire [[Love]] is born precisely from directed not at what the unsatisfied part of [[demandlove]]-[[object]]has, which is the demand for but at what he [[lovelack]]s, at the nothing beyond him.
==TWO==The [[object]] is valued insofar as it comes in the place of that [[lack]].
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. ---
For psychoanalysis One of the genesis most complex areas of [[Lacan]]'s work concerns the relationship between [[love investment must be taken into consideration ]] and the very different modalities through which it manifests itself must be identified[[desire]].
On the one hand, the two terms are diametrically opposed.
It is important to differentiate love from infatuation or being in love (<i>Verliebtheit</i>)On the other hand, which this opposition is associated with a pathological feeling (<i>Leidenschaft</i>)problematized by certian similarities between the two:
<blockquote>"That the state of being in love (Verliebtheit) manifests itself abnormally can be explained by the fact that other amorous states outside the analytic cure resemble abnormal rather than normal psychic phenomena."<ref>1915a</ref></blockquote>---
Being in love is essentially marked by 1. As an overestimation imaginary phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[ego]], [[love object and a devaluation of ]] is clearly opposed to [[desire]], which is inscribed in the self that resembles [[symbolic]] [[order]], the condition field of melancholia (1921c)the [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} p.189-91</ref>
The genesis of love begins with the oral relation of the infant's mouth and the mother's breast:<blockquote>"The picture of the child at the mother's breast has become the model of all sexual relations[[Love]] is a [[metaphor]], whereas [[desire]] is [[metonymy]]."<ref>1905d{{S8}} p.53</ref></blockquote>
Also, in choosing an object later in lifeIt can even be said that [[love]] kills [[desire]], since [[love]] is based on a [[fantasy]] of oneness with the beloved and this abolishes the child will attempt "difference which gives rise to reestablish this lost happiness[[desire]]."<ref>1905d{{S20}} p.46</ref>
But this happiness, even if it is marked by this choice of a primary infantile object, must later reunite and conjoin two libidinal currents, the tender current arising from infantile cathexis and the sensual current that appears during puberty:----
<blockquote>"The man will leave his mother and father—as the Bible indicates—and will follow his wife—tenderness and sensuality are therefore reunited."<ref>1912d</ref></blockquote>
This can only occur through the loss of the infantile object choice: "The individual human must devote himself to 2. On the difficult task of separating from his parentsother hand," as Freud indicated there are elements in [[Lacan]]'s work which destabilize the twenty-first of the <i>Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis</i>.<ref>1916-1917a neat opposition between [[love]] and [[1915-16desire]]</ref>.
YetFirstly, they are both similar in "On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love,"<ref>1912d</ref> Freud recalls the difficulty of loving and the numerous splits that remain: "When they love, they do not desire, and when they desire, they cannot loveneither can ever be satisfied."
In "Instincts and their Vicissitudes" (1915c)Secondly, he examines the different splits and oppositions in which [[structur]] of [[love plays a role; these are: loving/hating, loving/being ]] as "the wish to be loved" is identical to the [[structure]] of [[desire]], and loving and hating together in opposition which the [[subject]] [[desire]]s to become the state [[object]] of indifferencethe [[Other]]'s [[desire]].
The pair lovingThirdly, in the [[dialectic]] of [[need]]/[[demand]]/hating [[desire]], [[desire]] is related to born precisely from the pleasure/unpleasure polarity; the ego interjects pleasure and expels unpleasureunsatisfied part of [[demand]], which is transformed into the opposition ego-pleasure/exterior world-unpleasure[[demand]] for [[love]].
Thus, hatred and [[Lacan]]'s own [[discourse]] on [[love]] is thus often complicated by the rejection same substitution of "[[desire]]" for "[[love]]" which he himself highlights in the exterior world emanate from the narcissistic egotext of [[Plato]]'s ''Symposium''.<ref>{{S8}} p. 141</ref>
The pair loving/being loved originates in the reversal of an impulse into its opposite, of activity into passivity, and corresponds to the narcissism of self-love.
The pair love/indifference is associated with the polarity ego/exterior world.
We love the "object that dispenses pleasure" and we repeat "the original flight before the exterior world" (1926d) in the face of an object that does not dispense pleasure.
In this way the intellectual economy of love is profoundly affected by these different forms of ambivalence.
==Definition==
Love in the sense Žižek understands it was first developed by Lucan in his Seminar XX.
It is thus from the beginning associated with a certain 'feminine' logic of the not-all and implies a way of thinking beyond the master-signifier and its universality guaranteed by exception:
<blockquote>"Lacan's extensive discussion of love in Seminar XX is thus to be read in the Paulinian sense, as opposed to the dialectic of the Law and its transgression. This latter dialectic is clearly "masculine" or phallic ... Love, on the other hand, is "feminine": it involves the paradoxes of the not-All."<ref>p. 335</ref></blockquote>
Žižek associates love with St Paul, and it is a way for him to think the difference between Judaism, whose libidinal economy is still fundamentally that of the law and its transgression, and Christianity, which through forgiveness and the possibility of being born again seeks to overcome this dialectic:
<blockquote>"It is here that one should insist on how Lacan accomplishes the passage from Law to Love, in short, from Judaism to Christianity."<ref>p.345</ref></blockquote>
In other words, this love might be seen to testify - as we also find with drive and enunciation - to a moment that precedes and makes possible the symbolic order and its social mediation, the way in which things are never directly what they are but only stand in for something else:
<blockquote>'Love bears witness to the abyss of a self-relating gesture by means of which, due to the lack of an independent guarantee of the social pact. the ruler himself has to guarantee the Truth of his word"<ref>p. 267 n. 5</ref></blockquote>
Lacan conceives of love as a narcissistic misrecognition which obscures the truth of desire.
==Quotes==
"Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]].</ref>
==See Also==
(see also EXCEPTION NOT-ALL JEW CHRISTIAN)
* [[Ambivalence]]
* [[Counter-transference]]
* [[Demand]]
* [[Eros]]
* [[Friendship]]
* [[Genital love]]
* [[Hatred]]
* [[Maternal]]
* [[Narcissism]]
* [[Object]]
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Passion]]
* [[Primary love]]
* [[Rivalry]]
* [[Sexuality]]
* [[Transferencelove]]
* [[Turning around]]
==References==
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# Freud, Sigmund. (1905d). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. SE, 7: 123-243.
# ——. (1912d). On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love. SE, 11: 177-190.
# ——. (1915a). Observations on transference-love: technique of psycho-analysis. SE, 12: 157-171.
# ——. (1921c). Group psychology and the analysis of the ego. SE, 18: 65-143.
# ——. (1926d). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. SE, 20: 75-172.
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