Preface vii Introduction 1 The Symbolic I. Freudian Preludes: Love Triangles 9 Obsessives in Love * Hysterics in Love II. Freudian Conundrums: Love Is Incompatible with Desire 16 "Where They Love They Do Not Desire" * "Where They Desire They Do Not Love" * On Women, Love, and Desire * Too Little * Too Much III. Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium 33 Love Is Giving What You Don't Have * Not Having and Not Knowing * Love as a Metaphor: The Signification of Love * The Miracle of Love * Love in the Analytic Context The Imaginary IV. Freudian Preludes: Narcissism 55 Narcissism and Love * Love for the Ego-Ideal V. Lacan's Imaginary Register 62 Animals in the Imaginary * Animals in Love * The Formative Role of Images in Human Beings * The Mirror Stage * The Image We Love More Than Ourselves: The Ideal Ego * The Myth of Narcissus * Sibling Rivalry * Lacan's "Beloved": Crimes of Passion * "Family Complexes" * Transitivism * The Intrusion (or Fraternal) Complex and the "Solipsistic Ego" * Love and Psychosis * The Dangers of Imaginary-Based Love * Imaginary Passion in the Analytic Setting The Real VI. Love and the Real 93 Repetition Compulsion * The Unsymbolizable * Love at First Sight * The Other Jouissance * Love Is Real? * Love and the Drives * Love as a Link General Considerations on Love VII. Languages and Cultures of Love 107 Dependency (or so-called Natural Love) * Attachment * Friendship * Agape (or Christian Love) * Hatred * Attraction * Fixation on the Human Form (Beauty) * Physical Love, Sexual Desire, Lust, Concupiscence, Sex Drive * Fin'Amor (Courtly Love) * Romantic Love * Falling in Love (à la Stendhal) * Other Languages and Cultures of Love VIII.
Reading Plato with Lacan: Further Commentary on Plato's Symposium 163 The Relationship between Form and Content in the Symposium * Homosexual Love as a Simplified Model * Phaedrus: Love and Theology * Pausanias: The Psychology of the Rich * Eryximachus: Love as Harmony * Agathon's Speech * Socrates' Speech and the In-Between (Metaxú) * Love Triangles Revisited * The Six Stages of Socrates' Speech * After Socrates' Speech * The "Mystery" of the Relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades * Socrates' "Interpretation" * Socrates' "Mistake" * Parting Shot IX. Some Possible Conclusions about Love 200 Unanswered Questions * Love and Psychoanalysis Notes 207 References 236 Index 246.