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The element of sacrifice in romantic love

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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Russell 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.

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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

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