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==SpeechJacques Lacan=====Symbolic===
[[Lacan]] argues that it is [[impossible]] to [[speech|say]] anything [[meaning]]ful or [[meaning|sensible]] about [[love]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 57</ref> Indeed, the moment one starts to [[speech|speak]] about [[love]], one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p. 17</ref> Given these views, it might seem surprising that [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a great deal of his [[seminar]] precisely to [[speech|speaking]] about [[love]]. However, in doing so, [[Lacan]] is merely demonstrating what the [[analysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], for "the only thing that we do in the [[analytic discourse]] is [[speech|speak]] about [[love]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 77</ref>
==Symbolic Effects=Imaginary===[[Love]] is located by [[Lacan]] as a purely [[imaginary]] phenomenon, although it has effects in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].<ref>(one of those effects being to produce "a veritable subduction of the symbolic") {{S1}} p. 142</ref> [[Love]] is [[autoeroticism|autoerotic]], and has a fundamentally [[narcissism|narcissistic]] [[structure]] 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 [[imaginary]] nature of [[love]] leads [[Lacan]] to oppose all those [[analyst]]s who posit [[love]] as an ideal in [[psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 8</ref>
==Illusory Fantasy=Love and Desire===One of the most complex areas of [[LoveLacan]] is an illusory 's [[fantasyJacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] of fusion with the beloved which makes up for concerns the relationship between [[absencelove]] of any and [[sexual relationshipdesire]].<ref>{{S20}} p On the one hand, the two terms are diametrically opposed. 44</ref> On the other hand, this opposition is problematized by certain similarities between the two:
==Deception and Lack==[[Love]] is [[truth|deceptive]]. <blockquote>"As a specular mirage, love is essentially deception."<ref>{{S11}} p. 268</ref></blockquote> It is [[lure|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 not at what the [[love]]-[[object]] has, but at what he [[lack]]s, at the nothing beyond him. The [[object]] is valued insofar as it comes in the place of that [[lack]]. ==Love and Desire==One of the most complex areas of [[Lacan]]'s work concerns the relationship between [[love]] and [[desire]]. On the one hand, the two terms are diametrically opposed. On the other hand, this opposition is problematized by certian similarities between the two: ===OppositionSimilarity: Love and Desire===As an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[ego]], [[love]] is clearly opposed to [[desire]], which is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the field of the [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} p.189-91</ref> [[Love]] is a [[metaphor]], whereas [[desire]] is [[metonymy]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 53</ref> It can even be said that [[love]] kills [[desire]], since [[love]] is based on a [[fantasy]] of oneness with the beloved and this abolishes the difference which gives rise to [[desire]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 46</ref> ===Similarity: Love and Desire===
On the other hand, there are elements in [[Lacan]]'s work which destabilize the neat opposition between [[love]] and [[desire]].
