Lacan’s system.
From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan, by Catherine Clément
About love nobody ever spoke better than Lacan […] Love was a permanent presence, ever so lightly touched upon as he - lingered lazily, lengthily over the dead ends of desire, the desperations of fantasy, and the impossibility of “sexual intercourse.” In Lacan’s system, which is less inflexible and less fully worked out than some people think, love will no doubt remain one of the few escapes, perhaps the only one. Love was a door which, unlike the others, was not closed. A door left ajar. (p. 21)
There are several interesting things in this.
- Lacan’s system is less inflexible and not fully worked out.
- The importance of love as an act, as a creative act within Lacan’s thought.
