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[[Lacan]]'s own [[discourse]] on [[love]] is thus often complicated by the same substitution of "[[desire]]" for "[[love]]" which he himself highlights in the text of [[Plato]]'s ''[[Plato|Symposium]]''.<ref>{{S8}} p. 141</ref>
===Courtly Love===
Courtly love "is an altogether refined way of making up for the absence of sexual relation by pretending that it is we who put an obstacle to it." Courtly love is a love of the impossible, a love for the obstacle which forever thwarts love - an elegant way of coming to terms with the [[absence]] of [[sexual relationship|sexual relations]].
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