Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan
Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan
What is love for Sartre and Lacan? In Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan, Sinan Richards examines Sartres and Lacans writings on love to draw out a distinctly Lacanian conception of love and subjectivity. Richards begins by demonstrating how Sartres in itself for itself is a convincing shorthand for Lacans central object of study, before presenting and explaining the various aspects of Lacans psychophilosophical project to show how, for Lacan, the subject is marked by various pathologies. He argues that, for Lacan, as for Sartre and Schelling before him, the subject is ontologically sick, and, by its very structure, the Oedipus complex produces subjects that are prey to a mental collapse at any moment. As a result, for Lacan, the subject has no choice but to identify with their potential madness, a constitutive aspect of their subjectivity. He concludes by making a compelling case that love in the Lacanian schema is the subjects mad wish to reunite in itself with for itself, which is an always impossible yet necessary aspect of subjectivity. The book presents fresh insights on Lacan and Sartre that will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, comparative literature and critical theory.
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