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