Psychoanalytic view of Jacques Lacan on love

Abstract

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was not only a French psychoanalyst, but also a Western psychoanalytic thinker and a prominent name in the history of psychoanalysis by teaching lectures and holding weekly seminars, he made significant changes in psychoanalysis, taking Freud’s psychoanalysis to another stage and giving a philosophical dimension to Freud’s thought, which is why we call him the Freud of France. In addition to psychoanalysis, philosophy and linguistics are two of Lacan’s most important fields of work. This research is an attempt at Lacan’s psychoanalytic view of love. The research considers the foundations of the concept of love in Lacan’s psychoanalysis and then develops it towards Lacan’s philosophical views. At the same time, Lacan’s psychoanalytic view of love is related to desire, lack, need, desire, and unconsciousness as the basis of language, narcissism, and Lacan’s psychoanalytic system, which consists of three aspects: real, imaginary and symbolic. Finally, the principle of love in Lacan’s psychoanalysis is to “give what you are not”. This forms a major part of the basis of this research. To arrive at a comprehensive view of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis of love, an attempt has been made to answer the following questions: Does Lacan’s psychoanalysis provide us with anything concrete about love? The essence of love in Lacan’s psychoanalysis gives us a picture of Lacan’s psychoanalytic method of desire. Why does a lack of Lacan’s psychoanalysis define the phenomenon of love? The essence of love in Lacan’s psychoanalysis gives us a picture of Lacan’s psychoanalytic method of desire. We have also reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the research is an attempt to discuss the various characteristics of love in Lacan’s psychoanalysis, which are reflected in Lacan’s work Psychoanalysis speaks more precisely than love.