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Sigmund Freud

miracle de lamour
Jacques Lacan 1960-61
Le transfert

1959-60 Lthique de la
psychanalyse
1961-62
Lidentification 1962-63
Langoisseobjet a

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On Love and objet a: Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Chih-chung Shen

Abstract
This paper elaborates on the problem of love and desire in
psychoanalytic theory via a critical reading of Freuds and Lacans
texts, in order to explore the particularity of Lacans concept of objet
a.
For Freud, love is based on the primary experience of
satisfaction already lost in the very early years; ones love life
merely replays such experiences of satisfaction. Therefore, the
choice of the love-object is in fact no choice at all, but rather
modeled either on the helping other that provides satisfaction
(anaclitic type of object-choice), or on oneself (narcissistic type of
object-choice). Yet, such a conception of fated love poses a huge
theoretical challenge to psychoanalysis: If there is no choice in love,
how can we explain the miracle of love, that is, the advent of
love-object?
In attempting to meet this theoretical challenge, Lacan brings
his notion of dialectic of desire to bear on understanding love in the
context of his reading Platos dialogue, the Symposium, in Seminar
VIII, Transference (1960-61). In this context, he explores several
related questions: How is desire related to love? Why is the subject
with whom we are in love also our object of desire?, etc. For Lacan,
to clarify the mystery of love on the one hand amounts to explaining

Asssitant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National

Taiwan University.

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transference love, the basis of psychoanalytic treatment, and

moreover solving the problem of the analysts own desire and ethics
(Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis [1959-60]); on the other
hand, these analyses of love and desire prompt him to postulate the
notion of objet a in Seminar IX, Identification (1961-62), and
Seminar X, Anxiety (1962-63).
Keywords: Freud, Lacan, love, metaphor of love, desire, object

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 12

Josef Breuer Anna O

Anna O

Ernst Jones
Gegenbertragung

Anna
O

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Irma

Lsung
Irma
Martha Bernays
Lacan, Sminaire VIII 17-18

Lthique de la psychanalyse

Lacan, Sminaire VII 368

avoir
avoir cd son dsir
cd sur son dsir

Freud, Bermerkungen, G.W., X: 314-15

Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
Herdentribe

Sexualtribe

Identifizierung

Ichideal
G.W., XIII: 115-28

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Anders NygrenAgape
Eros

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie

ObjektfindungWiederfindung
G.W., V: 123

miracle de
lamourLacan, Sminaire VIII 192

manqueprsence-absence

Lacan, Sminaire VIII

46

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 53

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signification1

rasts
rmnos Lacan,
Sminaire VIII 53

Seuil signifiant

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 69

Agalma
1958 Dsir et ses
interprtations

Lacan, Sminaire
VI 17

sujet de lnonciation
sujet de lnonc
Autre
infans

besoin
demande

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dsir
Lacan, Sminaire VI 20-28

Vorstellungsreprsentanz Lacan, Sminaire VI

69-97Ella Sharpe
Hamlet
Lacan, Sminaire VI 210-549
objet du dsir

1959
das Ding

18

Lacan, Sminaire VII 11-12

jouissance
Lacan, Sminaire VII 13

pathologisches Objekt
Wohl

Kant 54

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Kant avec
Sade

Franais, encore un effort si vous voulez tre

rpublicains

droit de jouissance

de Sade 220

das Ding3
Lacan, Sminaire VII 65

forclusion

1895
UrverteilenLacan, Sminaire VII 70-72

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bon objet
mauvais objet

ralitrel

Lacan, Sminaire VII 92

objet perdu

Lacan, Sminaire VII 83

jouissance de la
transgressionLacan, Sminaire VII 229

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Lacan, Sminaire VII 279

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Lacan, Sminaire VII 280

Antigone
Oedipus Rex
seconde mort4

5
4

Lacan, Kant avec Sade

imeros enargesLacan, Sminaire VII 311

Eros

1960
Le Banquet

Alcibiade

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Phdre

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 37

Agathon

Diotime

Lacan,
Sminaire VIII 168-69

agalmata6

Silnes

Platon 215b

agalmata agalma

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216e

Che Vuoi?
agalma
Lacan, Sminaire
VIII 172

objet

partiel7

Melanie Klein

Lacan, Sminaire
VIII 176-77

agalma

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jouissance

Lacan, Sminaire VIII

178

amour courtois
Sublimierung
Lacan,
das Ding
Sminaire VII 133

Lacan,
Sminaire VI 139

Lacan, Sminaire VII 121-37

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lit damourLacan, Sminaire VIII 24

LiebesbeziehungenFreud, Massenpsychologie,
G.W., XIII: 100

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Anna Freud

ego-psychology

jouer le mortLacan, Sminaire VIII 226

Seuil

SI
i(a) II
AIII

S IV

ia2

S-AI

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 227

Ichideal

Idealich

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Lacan, Sminaire
VIII 227-28

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 228

Lacan, Sminaire VIII 234

non-science

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Jacques
Derrida

vie sexuelle
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