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The Anxiety of Losing Love
Roberto Pozzetti

We can say that woman is more on the side of love and of jouissance while man is more on the side of desire. When a woman is very desired, when she’s really the object of a desire, she often takes flight. Her anxiety is being faced with the desire of the Other.

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A Love Under the Gaze
Paula Pires

Despite their “irreconcilable differences”, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were very similar, compounding a tragicomic dyad which emphasises the narcissistic trait of love present at the core of their encounter, which is related to the field of Lust.

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The Surveillance of the Other is Not a Sign of Love
Elisa Acosta

[…] working against surveillance by giving words a chance, by allowing the words that express love for the person to emerge, and by dismantling the mortifying jouissance of the Other that erodes every bond we attempt to form. As Miller states, what is being lived deserves to be told, and what deserves to be told has the power to reinvent love.

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« Aussi bien, depuis toujours, la question de l'amour de transfert a-t-elle été liée, trop étroitement, à l'élaboration analytique de la notion de l'amour. Il ne s’agit pas de l'amour en tant que l’Éros – présence universelle d’un pouvoir de lien entre les sujets, sous-jacente à toute la réalité dans laquelle se déplace l’analyse – mais de l'amour-passion, tel qu'il est concrètement vécu par le sujet, comme une sorte de catastrophe psychologique. La question se pose, vous le savez, en quoi cet amour-passion est, en son fondement, lié à la relation analytique.»

Lacan J., Le Séminaire, livre I, Les Écrits techniques de Freud, texte établi par J.-A. Miller, Paris, Seuil, 1975, p. 129-130.