Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference

Bruce Fink

Whether to vilify and bury love once and for all or, rather, to praise it – the
dilemma has preoccupied poets and philosophers for millennia. Whether to
celebrate the incomparable joy love brings or denounce the intense pain and
desperation one suffers in its wake, whether to glorify its life-giving virtues
or expose its cruelty and illusions – that is the question certain
psychoanalysts, too, have weighed in on, following in the footsteps of the
bards and literati