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==Speak About Love==[[Lacan]] argues that it is impossible to say anything meaningful [[meaning]]ful or [[meaning|sensible ]] about [[love]].<ref>{{S8}} p.57</ref>

Indeed, the moment one starts to speak about [[love]], one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p.17</ref>

GIven Given these views, it might seem surprising that [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a great deal of his [[seminar]] precisely to speaking about [[love]].

However, in doing so, [[Lacan]] is merely demonstrating what the [[analysand]] does in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], for "the only thing that we do in the analytic discourse is speak about love."<ref>{{S20}} p.77</ref>---

==Symbolic Effects==[[Love]] is located by [[Lacan]] as a purely imaginary phenomenon, although it has effects in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] (one of those effects being to produce "a veritable subduction of the symbolic").<ref>{{S1}} p.142</ref>

==Autoeroticism and Narcissism==[[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>

It is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved" that constitutes the illusion of [[Lovelove]] involves an , and this is what distinguishes it from the [[imaginaryorder]] reciprocityof the [[drive]]s, since "to love in which there isno reciprocity, essentially, to wish to be lovedonly pure activity."<ref>{{S11}} p.253200</ref>

It ==Illusory Fantasy==[[Love]] is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved" that constitutes the illusion of an illusory [[lovefantasy]], and this is what distinguishes it from of fusion with the beloved which makes up for the [[orderabsence]] of the any [[drivesexual relationship]]s, in which there is no reciprocity, only pure activity.<ref>{{S11S20}} p.20044</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> ---==Deception and Lack==

<blockquote>"As a specular mirage, love is essentially deception."<ref>{{S11}} p.268</ref></blockquote>

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>

===Opposition: Love and Desire===As an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[ego]], [[love]] is clearly opposed to [[desire]], which is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the field of the [[Other]].<ref>{{S11}} p.189---91</ref>

1. As an imaginary phenomenon which belongs to the field of the [[egoLove]], is a [[lovemetaphor]] is clearly opposed to , whereas [[desire]], which is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the field of the [[Othermetonymy]].<ref>{{S11S8}} p.189-9153</ref>

It can even be said that [[Lovelove]] is a kills [[metaphordesire]], whereas since [[desirelove]] is based on a [[metonymyfantasy]] of oneness with the beloved and this abolishes the difference which gives rise to [[desire]].<ref>{{S8S20}} p.5346</ref>

It can even be said that ===Similarity: Love and Desire===On the other hand, there are elements in [[loveLacan]] kills [[desire]], since 's work which destabilize the neat opposition between [[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>

2. On the other hand, there are elements in ==See Also=={{See}}* [[LacanAnalysand]]'s work which destabilize the neat opposition between * [[loveAnalyst]] and * [[desireDemand]].||Firstly, they are both similar in that neither can ever be satisfied. Secondly, the * [[structureDesire]] of * [[loveDialectic]] as "the wish to be loved" is identical to the * [[structureDiscourse]] of ||* [[desireLack]], in which the * [[subjectLure]] * [[desireMetaphor]]s to become the [[object]] of the [[Other]]'s [[desire]].||Thirdly, in the * [[dialecticMetonymy]] of * [[needNeed]]/[[demand]]/* [[desireSignification]], [[desire]] is born precisely from the unsatisfied part of [[demand]], which is the [[demand]] for [[love]].||* [[LacanSpeech]]'s own * [[discourseStructure]] on * [[loveTreatment]] is thus often complicated by the same substitution of "[[desire]]" for "[[love]]" which he himself highlights in the text of [[Plato]]'s ''Symposium''.<ref>{{S8Also}} p.141</ref>