another paper1. The only thing that we do in the analytic discourse is speak about love.-- S20, 77.
2. Love is autoerotic, and has a fundamentally narcissistic structure--S11, 186.
3. to love is, essentially, to wish to be loved.--S11, 253.
4. Love is an illusory fantasy of fusion with the beloved which makes up for the absence of any sexual relationship. --S20, 44.
5. Love is a metaphor--S8, 53. whereas desire is metonyme. It can even be said that love kills desire, since love is based on a fantasy of oneness with the beloved--S20, 46, and this abolishes the difference which gives rise to desire.
6. As a particular mirage, love is essentially deception.--S11, 268. It is deceptive because it involves giving what one does not have--S8, 147.
7. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.--Ge. 29:20
8. And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.--Deu. 10:12
9. I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.--Psa. 18:1.
10. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.--Prv. 15:17
11. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.--Eccl. 3:8.
12. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.--1 Cor. 13:1-3.
