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LOVE (see also EXCEPTION NOT-ALL JEW CHRISTIAN)===Imaginary=== [[Love ]] is located by [[Lacan]] as a purely [[imaginary]] phenomenon, although it has effects in the sense Žižek understands it was first developed by Lucan in his Seminar XX[[symbolic]] [[order]]. It is thus from the beginning associated with <ref>(one of those effects [[being]] to produce "a certain 'feminine' logic veritable subduction of [[the not-all symbolic]]") {{S1}} p. 142</ref> [[Love]] is [[autoeroticism|autoerotic]], and implies has a way of thinking beyond the master-signifier and its universality guaranteed by exception:fundamentally [[narcissism|narcissistic]] [[structure]] since "it's one'Lacans own ego that one loves in love, one's extensive discussion 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 Seminar XX [[psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 8</ref> [[Love]] involves an [[imaginary]] reciprocity, since "to love is thus , essentially, to [[wish]] to be readin loved."<ref>{{S11}} p. 253</ref> It is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved" that constitutes the Paulinian sense[[illusion]] of [[love]], as opposed to and this is what distinguishes it from the [[order]] of the dialectic [[drive]]s, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure [[activity]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 200</ref> [[Love]] is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] of fusion with the Law and itstransgression[[beloved]] which makes up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relationship]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 44</ref> This latter dialectic is clearly "masculine" or phallic .especially clear in the asexual [[concept]] of [[courtly love]].<ref>{{S20}} p.65</ref> [[Love]] is [[truth|deceptive]]. "As a [[specular]] mirage, on the other hand, love is essentially [[deception]]."feminine": <ref>{{S11}} p. 268</ref> It is [[lure|deceptive]] because it involves the paradoxes ofthe giving what one does not-All' have (pi.e. 335the [[phallus]]); to [[love]] is "to give what one does not have."<ref>{{S8}} p. Žižek associates 147</ref> [[Love]] is directed not at what the [[object|love with St Paul-object]] has, but at what he [[lack]]s, and at the [[nothing]] beyond him. The [[object]] is valued insofar as it comes in the [[place]] of that [[lack]].<!-- Lacan suggests that when one is a wayin love one is really saying: "I am what is [[lacking]] in you, with my devotion to you, with my sacrifice for him you, I will fill you out, I will [[complete]] you." The operation of love is therefore [[double]]: the [[subject]] fills in his own [[lack]] by offering himself to think the difference between Judaism, whose libidinal[[other]] as the [[object]] filling out the [[lack]] in the [[Other]]. --> ===Love and Desire===economy is still fundamentally that One of the most [[complex]] areas of [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] concerns the law [[relationship]] between [[love]] and its trans-gression[[desire]]. On the one hand, and Christianitythe two [[terms]] are diametrically opposed. On the other hand, this opposition is problematized by certain similarities between the two: ====Opposition====As an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which through forgiveness and belongs to the pos-sibility [[order|field]] of being born again seeks the [[ego]], [[love]] is clearly opposed to overcome this dialectic: 'It [[desire]], which is herethat one should insist on how Lacan accomplishes inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the [[order|field]] of the passage fromLaw to [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} pp. 189-91</ref> [[Love]] is a [[metaphor]], in shortwhereas [[desire]] is [[metonymy]]. from Judaism to Christianity" (<ref>{{S8}} p.345). In otherwords53</ref> It can even be said that [[love]] kills [[desire]], this since [[love might be seen to testify - as we also find ]] is based on a [[fantasy]] of oneness with drivethe beloved and enunciation - this abolishes the [[difference]] which gives rise to a moment that precedes and makes possible [[desire]].<ref>{{S20}} p. 46</ref> ====Similarity====On thesymbolic order and its social mediationother hand, the way there are elements in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] which things aredestabilize the neat opposition between [[love]] and [[desire]].  never directly what # Firstly, they are but only stand both similar in for something else: 'Lovethat neither can ever be [[satisfied]].bears witness # Secondly, the [[structure]] of [[love]] as "the wish to be loved" is identical to the abyss [[structure]] of a self-relating gesture by means [[desire]], in which the [[subject]] [[desire]]s to become the [[object]] of whichthe [[Other]]'s [[desire]].# Thirdly,due to in the lack [[dialectic]] of an independent guarantee [[need]]/[[demand]]/[[desire]], [[desire]] is [[born]] precisely from the [[unsatisfied]] part of [[demand]], which is the social pact[[demand]] for [[love]].  [[Lacan]]'s own [[discourse]] on [[love]] is thus often complicated by theruler same [[substitution]] of "[[desire]]" for "[[love]]" which he himself has to guarantee highlights in the Truth [[text]] of his word" ([[Plato]]'s ''[[Plato|Symposium]]''.<ref>{{S8}} p. 267 n141</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. 5)" 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]]. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]* [[Demand]]||* [[Desire]]* [[Dialectic]]* [[Discourse]]||* [[Lack]]* [[Lure]]* [[Metaphor]]||* [[Metonymy]]* [[Need]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Speech]]* [[Structure]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div>{{OK}}[[Category:Imaginary]]__NOTOC__