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==DefinitionJacques Lacan==LOVE (see also EXCEPTION NOT-ALL JEW CHRISTIAN)===Symbolic===Love in the sense Žižek understands [[Lacan]] argues that 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: 'Lacan's extensive discussion of love in Seminar XX is thus to be read in the Paulinian sense, as opposed [[impossible]] to the dialectic of the Law and its transgression. This latter dialectic is clearly "masculine" [[speech|say]] anything [[meaning]]ful or phallic .[[meaning|sensible]] [[about]] [[love]].<ref>{{S8}} p. Love57</ref> Indeed, on the other hand[[moment]] one starts to [[speech|speak]] about [[love]], is "feminine": it involves the paradoxes of the not-All' (one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p. 335). Žižek associates love with St Paul17</ref> Given these views, and it is might seem surprising that [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a way for him great deal of his [[seminar]] precisely to think the difference between Judaism[[speech|speaking]] about [[love]]. However, whose libidinal economy is still fundamentally that of the law and its transgressionin doing so, and Christianity, which through forgiveness and the possibility of being born again seeks to overcome this dialectic: 'It [[Lacan]] is here that one should insist on how Lacan accomplishes merely demonstrating what the passage from Law to Love[[analysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], in short. from Judaism to Christianityfor " (p.345). 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 [[thing]] that we do in for something else: '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[[analytic discourse]] is [[speech|speak]] about [[love]]. the ruler himself has to guarantee the Truth of his word" (<ref>{{S20}} p. 267 n. 5).77</ref>
===Imaginary===[[Love]] is located by [[Lacan conceives ]] 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> [[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> [[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> [[Love]] is [[truth|deceptive]]. "As a narcissistic misrecognition [[specular]] mirage, love is essentially [[deception]]."<ref>{{S11}} p. 268</ref> 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 [[object|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]].<!-- Lacan suggests that when one is in love one is really saying: "I am what is [[lacking]] in you, with my devotion to you, with my sacrifice for 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 the [[other]] as the [[object]] filling out the [[lack]] in the [[Other]]. --> ===Love and Desire===One of the most [[complex]] areas of [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|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 certain similarities between the two: ====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 [[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====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 obscures is the truth [[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> ===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]].
==See Also==
{{See}}* [[AmbivalenceAnalysand]]* [[Counter-transferenceAnalyst]]
* [[Demand]]
||* [[ErosDesire]]* [[FriendshipDialectic]]* [[Genital loveDiscourse]]||* [[HatredLack]]* [[MaternalLure]]* [[NarcissismMetaphor]]||* [[ObjectMetonymy]]* [[Oedipus complexNeed]]* [[PassionSignification]]* [[Primary love]]||* [[RivalrySpeech]]* [[SexualityStructure]]* [[TransferenceloveTreatment]]* [[Turning around]]{{Also}}
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