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love ===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'amours 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 Analysis==What "being loved" that constitutes the [[analysandillusion]] does of [[love]], and this is what distinguishes it from the [[order]] of the [[drive]]s, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure [[psychoanalyticactivity]] .<ref>{{S11}} p. 200</ref> [[treatmentLove]] is speak about 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 [[specular]] mirage, love is essentially [[deception]]."The only thing that we do in <ref>{{S11}} p. 268</ref> It is [[lure|deceptive]] because it involves giving what one does not have (i.e. the analytic discourse [[phallus]]); to [[love]] is speak about love"to give what one does not have."<ref>{{S20S8}} p.77147</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]]. -->

==Transference=Love and Desire===One of the most [[complex]] areas of [Love[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] arises in concerns the [[analyticrelationship]] between [[treatmentlove]] and [[desire]] as an effect of . On the one hand, the two [[transferenceterms]]are diametrically opposed. On the other hand, this opposition is problematized by certain similarities between the two:

==Love and Aggressivity==Similarity====On the other hand, there are elements in [[Lacan]] lays empahsis on 's [[work]] which destabilize the conneciton neat opposition between [[love]] and [[aggressivitydesire]].

The presence # 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 one implies [[need]]/[[demand]]/[[desire]], [[desire]] is [[born]] precisely from the presence [[unsatisfied]] part of [[demand]], which is the other[[demand]] for [[love]].

This phenomenon, which [[FreudLacan]] calls 's own [[discourse]] on [[ambivalencelove]]', is considered thus often complicated by the same [[Lacansubstitution]] as one of "[[desire]]" for "[[love]]" which he himself highlights in the great discoveries [[text]] of [[psychoanalysisPlato]]'s ''[[Plato|Symposium]]''.<ref>{{S8}} p.141</ref>

===Courtly Love and Imaginary===[[Love]] is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[ego]].[[Love]] is [[autoerotic]], and has a fundamentally [narcissistic]] [[structure]]. <blockqutoe>"It's one own's ego that one loves in love, one's own ego made real on the imaginary level."<ref>{{S1}} p.142</ref></blockquote> An [[imaginary]] reciprocity between "loving" and "beinbg loved", which constitutes the [[illusion]] of [[love]]. "To Courtly love is, essentially, to wish to be loved."<ref>{{S11}} p.253</ref> ==Love and Deception==[[Love]] is an [[illusory]] [[fantasy]] altogether refined way of fusion with the beloved which makes making up for the [[absence]] of any [[sexual relationship]].<ref>{{S20}} p.44</ref> [[Love]] is 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 at what the love-object lacks, at the nothing beyond it.The object is valued insofar as it comes in the palce of that lack.  ==Love and Desire==Desire is inscribed in the symbolic order.Love is a metaphor, whereas desire is a metonymy.<ref>{{S8}} p.53</ref>Love kills desire.Love is based on a fantasy of oneness with the beloeved and this abolishes the difference which gives rise to desire.<ref>{{S20}} p.46</ref> First, they are both similar in that neither can be satisfied.Second, in the dialectic of need/demand/desire, desire is born precisely from the unsatisfied part of [[demand]], which is the demand for [[love]]. ==TWO== From a psychoanalytic point of view, love is the investment in, and ability to be loved relation by, another without experiencing this love as a subjective threat, such as pretending that represented by the Thing (<i>das Ding</i>) which Freud described in the Project of 1895.  For psychoanalysis the genesis of the love investment must be taken into consideration and the very different modalities through which it manifests itself must be identified.  It is important we who put an obstacle to differentiate love from infatuation or being in love (<i>Verliebtheit</i>), which is associated with a pathological feeling (<i>Leidenschaft</i>):  <blockquote>"That the state of being in love (Verliebtheit) manifests itself abnormally can be explained by the fact that other amorous states outside the analytic cure resemble abnormal rather than normal psychic phenomenait."<ref>1915a</ref></blockquote> Being in Courtly love is essentially marked by an overestimation of the love object and a devaluation of the self that resembles the condition of melancholia (1921c). The genesis of love begins with the oral relation of the infant's mouth and the mother's breast:<blockquote>"The picture of the child at the mother's breast has become the model of all sexual relations."<ref>1905d</ref></blockquote> Also, in choosing an object later in life, the child will attempt "to reestablish this lost happiness."<ref>1905d</ref> But this happinessimpossible, even if it is marked by this choice of a primary infantile object, must later reunite and conjoin two libidinal currents, the tender current arising from infantile cathexis and the sensual current that appears during puberty: <blockquote>"The man will leave his mother and father—as the Bible indicates—and will follow his wife—tenderness and sensuality are therefore reunited."<ref>1912d</ref></blockquote> This can only occur through the loss of the infantile object choice: "The individual human must devote himself to the difficult task of separating from his parents," as Freud indicated in the twenty-first of the <i>Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis</i>.<ref>1916-1917a [1915-16]</ref> Yet, in "On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love,"<ref>1912d</ref> Freud recalls the difficulty of loving and the numerous splits that remain: "When they love, they do not desire, and when they desire, they cannot love." In "Instincts and their Vicissitudes" (1915c), he examines for the different splits and oppositions in obstacle which forever thwarts love plays a role; these are: loving/hating, loving/being loved, and loving and hating together in opposition to the state of indifference.  The pair loving/hating is related to the pleasure/unpleasure polarity; the ego interjects pleasure and expels unpleasure, which is transformed into the opposition ego-pleasure/exterior world-unpleasure.  Thus, hatred and the rejection of the exterior world emanate from the narcissistic ego.  The pair loving/being loved originates in the reversal of an impulse into its opposite, of activity into passivity, and corresponds to the narcissism of self-love.  The pair love/indifference is associated with the polarity ego/exterior world.  We love the "object that dispenses pleasure" and we repeat "the original flight before the exterior world" (1926d) in the face of an object that does not dispense pleasure.  In this way the intellectual economy of love is profoundly affected by these different forms of ambivalence. ==Definition== Love in the sense Žižek understands 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 elegant way of thinking beyond the master-signifier and its universality guaranteed by exception:  <blockquote>"Lacan's extensive discussion of love in Seminar XX is thus coming to be read in the Paulinian sense, as opposed to the dialectic of the Law and its transgression. This latter dialectic is clearly "masculine" or phallic ... Love, on the other hand, is "feminine": it involves the paradoxes of the not-All."<ref>p. 335</ref></blockquote>  Žižek associates love terms with St Paul, and it is a way for him to think the difference between Judaism, whose libidinal economy is still fundamentally that of the law and its transgression, and Christianity, which through forgiveness and the possibility of being born again seeks to overcome this dialectic:  <blockquote>"It is here that one should insist on how Lacan accomplishes the passage from Law to Love, in short, from Judaism to Christianity."<ref>p.345</ref></blockquote>  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 in for something else:  <blockquote>'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. the ruler himself has to guarantee the Truth of his word"<ref>p. 267 n. 5</ref></blockquote> Lacan conceives of love as a narcissistic misrecognition which obscures the truth [[absence]] of desire. ==Quotes=="Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."<ref>[[Jacques Lacansexual relationship|Lacan, Jacquessexual relations]].</ref>

(see also EXCEPTION NOT-ALL JEW CHRISTIAN){{See}}* [[AmbivalenceAnalysand]]* [[Counter-transferenceAnalyst]]

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# Freud, Sigmund. (1905d). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. SE, 7: 123-243.# ——. (1912d). On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love. SE, 11: 177-190.# ——. (1915a). Observations on transference-love: technique of psycho-analysis. SE, 12: 157-171.# ——. (1921c). Group psychology and the analysis of the ego. SE, 18: 65-143.# ——. (1926d). Inhibitions, symptoms and anxiety. SE, 20: 75-172.</div>{{OK}}[[Category:NewImaginary]]__NOTOC__