marriage involves infidelity. This is explained psychoanalytically.

Love in Plato 2. Plato’s Symposium , or Love as Transference If Lacan’s reading of the poetry of courtly love ends with this pornographic and scatological point, his reading of Plato’s Symposium  begins with an equally surprising point: the point of comedy. There are very few academic commentaries that emphasize anything of the comedy in the Symposium , but Lacan begins by saying precisely that he will not be giving an academic commentary. It is an important warning. Before c

As the title of my presentation indicates, and as the bibliographical references I've provided for this series' work indicate, what I'd like to do this afternoon is give you an idea—and only an idea, because Lacan addresses this topic from the beginning to the end of his teaching—an idea, then, of what Lacan says about love. I've taken three references from three different moments in Lacan's teaching. First, Seminar 7: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (from 1959-60), where Lacan

love, relationships.

Melancholy crisis. Psychotic breakdown. Mental health