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==Speak About LoveJacques 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=Love and Desire===One of the most [[Lovecomplex]] areas of [[Lacan]] is located by 's [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] as a purely imaginary phenomenon, although it has effects in concerns the [[symbolicrelationship]] between [[love]] and [[orderdesire]] (. On the one of those effects being to produce "a veritable subduction of hand, the symbolic")two [[terms]] are diametrically opposed.<ref>{{S1}} p. 142</ref> On the other hand, this opposition is problematized by certain similarities between the two:
==Autoeroticism and Narcissism==Opposition====As an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the [[order|field]] of the [[ego]], [[love]] is clearly opposed to [[desire]], which is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the [[order|field]] of the [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} pp. 189-91</ref> [[Love]] is a [[autoeroticism|autoeroticmetaphor]], and has a fundamentally whereas [[narcissism|narcissisticdesire]] is [[structuremetonymy]] since "it's one's own ego .<ref>{{S8}} p. 53</ref> It can even be said that one loves in [[love]] kills [[desire]], one's own ego made real since [[love]] is based on a [[fantasy]] of oneness with the beloved and this abolishes the imaginary level[[difference]] which gives rise to [[desire]]."<ref>{{S1S20}} p.14246</ref>
==Psychoanalytic Treatment==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> ==Imaginary Reciprocity==[[Love]] involves an [[imaginary]] reciprocity, since "to love is, essentially, to wish to be loved."<ref>{{S11}} p. 253</ref> It is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved" that constitutes the illusion of [[love]], and this is what distinguishes it from the [[order]] of the [[drive]]s, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure activity.<ref>{{S11}} p. 200</ref> ==Illusory Fantasy==[[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> This is especially clear in the asexual concept of [[courtly love]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 65</ref> Similarity==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: ===Opposition: 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]].
# Firstly, they are both similar in that neither can ever be [[satisfied]].
# Secondly, the [[structure]] of [[love]] as "the wish to be loved" is identical to the [[structure]] of [[desire]], in which the [[subject]] [[desire]]s to become the [[object]] of the [[Other]]'s [[desire]].
# Thirdly, in the [[dialectic]] of [[need]]/[[demand]]/[[desire]], [[desire]] is [[born ]] precisely from the [[unsatisfied ]] part of [[demand]], which is the [[demand]] for [[love]]. [[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>
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