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Love
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[[Love]] is [[truth|deceptive]]. "As a 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===
