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Since ''La logique du fantasme'', where he states that there is not a "sexual act," [[Lacan]] questions the difference between the act, ''[[l'acte]]'' and a mere action, ''agir''.

To make love would be an action, ''un agir'', and to get married an act, ''un acte'', because there is a commitment and a recognition, which entail ''[[repetition]]'' and the inscription in the [[Other]].

The [[signifier]] will appear soon: the absence of contradiction between Saint John's "In the beginning was the Word," and Goethe's "In the beginning was the action."

== Love ==

Slavoj Zizek argues that "here we find the inescapable deadlock that defines the position of the loved one: the other sees something in me and wants something from me, but I cannot give him what I do not possess - or as Lacan puts it, there is no rapport between what the loved one possesses and what the loving one lacks. The only way for the loved one to escape this deadlock is to stretch out his hand toward the loving one and to return love, that is to exchange, in a metaphorical gesture, his status as the loved one for the status of the loving one. This reversal designates the point of subjectivization: the object of love changes into the subject the moment it answers the call of love. And it is only by way of this reversal that a genuine love emerges: I am truly in love not when I am simply fascinated by the ''agalma'' in the other, but when I experience the other, the object of love, as frail and lost, as lacking 'it', and my love none the less survives this loss."

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