Lacan’s most well-known aphorism on love: ‘loving is to give what one does not have’
of the creation of love ex nihilo. Badiou’s In Praise of Love. It is an Event – something without precedent, something that emerges as if from nothing, but is nonetheless imminent and urgent. The date of Love’s conception is the same as the birthday of Aphrodite. This is why Lacan says that “Love will always have some obscure relationship with beauty” (Seminar VIII, 18th January 1961)
One cannot love except by becoming a non-haver, even if one has” means to offer or locate your castration in an other. Love hangs on nothing, as it were: “There is no support for love… as I have told you: to give one’s love, is very precisely and essentially to give as such nothing of what one has, because it is precisely in so far as one does not have it that there is question of love.”
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