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==SpeechJacques Lacan=====Symbolic===[[Lacan]] argues that it is [[impossible]] to [[speech|say]] anything [[meaning]]ful or [[meaning|sensible]] [[about ]] [[love]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 57</ref> Indeed, the [[moment ]] one starts to [[speech|speak]] about [[love]], one descends into imbecility.<ref>{{S20}} p. 17</ref> Given these views, it might seem surprising that [[Lacan]] himself dedicates a great deal of his [[seminar]] precisely to [[specchspeech|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 [[speech|speak]] about [[love]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 77</ref>

==Symbolic Effects=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'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>

==Autoeroticism and Narcissism==[[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 [[autoeroticism|autoeroticlove]], and has a fundamentally this is what distinguishes it from the [[narcissism|narcissisticorder]] of the [[structuredrive]] since "it's one's own ego that one loves , in lovewhich there is no reciprocity, one's own ego made real on 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 imaginary levelasexual [[concept]] of [[courtly love]]."<ref>{{S1S20}} p.14265</ref>

==Psychoanalytic Treatment==The [[imaginaryLove]] is [[truth|deceptive]] nature of . "As a [[lovespecular]] leads mirage, love is essentially [[Lacandeception]] to oppose all those ."<ref>{{S11}} p. 268</ref> It is [[analystlure|deceptive]]s who posit because it involves giving what one does not have (i.e. the [[lovephallus]] as an ideal in ); to [[psychoanalytic treatmentlove]]is "to give what one does not have."<ref>{{S7S8}} p.8147</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]]. -->

==Imaginary Reciprocity=Love and Desire===One of the most [[complex]] areas of [[Lacan]]'s [[LoveJacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]] involves an concerns the [[imaginaryrelationship]] reciprocity, since "to between [[love is]] and [[desire]]. On the one hand, essentiallythe two [[terms]] are diametrically opposed. On the other hand, to wish to be loved."<ref>{{S11}} p. 253</ref>this opposition is problematized by certain similarities between the two:

It is this reciprocity between "loving" and "being loved" that constitutes ====Opposition====As an [[imaginary]] phenomenon which belongs to the illusion [[order|field]] of the [[ego]], [[love]] is clearly opposed to [[desire]], and this which is what distinguishes it from inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]], the [[order|field]] of the [[driveOther]].<ref>{{S11}} pp. 189-91</ref> [[Love]] is a [[metaphor]]s, in which there whereas [[desire]] is no reciprocity[[metonymy]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 53</ref> It can even be said that [[love]] kills [[desire]], only pure activitysince [[love]] is based on a [[fantasy]] of oneness with the beloved and this abolishes the [[difference]] which gives rise to [[desire]].<ref>{{S11S20}} p. 20046</ref>

==Illusory Fantasy==[[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==[[Love]] is [[truth|deceptive]]. <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> [[Love]] is directed not at what the [[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]]. ==Love and Desire==One of the most complex areas of [[Lacan]]'s 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 certian similarities between the two: ===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> [[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=Similarity: Love and Desire===On the other hand, there are elements in [[Lacan]]'s [[work ]] which destabilize the neat opposition between [[love]] and [[desire]].

# Thirdly, in the [[dialectic]] of [[need]]/[[demand]]/[[desire]], [[desire]] is [[born ]] precisely from the [[unsatisfied ]] part of [[demand]], which is the [[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>

[[Lacan]]'s own [[discourse]] on [[===Courtly Love===Courtly love]] "is thus often complicated by an altogether refined way of making up for the same substitution absence of "[[desiresexual]]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]]" which he himself highlights in - an elegant way of coming to terms with the text of [[Platoabsence]]'s ''of [[Platosexual relationship|Symposiumsexual relations]]''.<ref>{{S8}} p. 141</ref>