posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00authored byRussell Grigg
In romantic love, the link with transgression is made very frequently indeed, so frequently that we cannot simply be dealing with a way of construing as real an obstacle that is imagined because the actual satisfaction is prohibited. Rather, the fact that access to the object is seen as transgressive must be due to the fact that the object itself has something that prevents the relationship from occurring. That is, it is not the case that the object is merely imagined to be inaccessible when in actual fact there is no obstacle to satisfaction by means of it. Rather, the relationship to the object as source of love is also and at the same time a perverse relationship that, at least for a neurotic, causes anxiety.
History
Journal
Lacanian ink
Volume
29
Season
Spring
Pagination
114 - 120
Publisher
Wooster Press
Location
New York, N.Y.
ISSN
1049-7749
Language
eng
Publication classification
C3.1 Non-refereed articles in a professional journal