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Love That Turned into a Double-edged Knife

Yannis Dimitrakos

The drama of this love ends with the community of the neighborhood mourning over Stella's lifeless body as if they mourn the lost opportunity for these two icons of modern Greek reality to make the transition into a new love, one that, set against the backdrop of lack and impossibility, would have allowed them “a new alliance with jouissance”.

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S’inventer un amour

Renata Teixeira

Luís de Camões, poète portugais du XIVe siècle, a écrit un poème qui illustre l’amour romantique. Dans ce poème, Camões introduit la facette réelle de l’amour : l’amour comme feu ardent, l’amour comme insatisfaction, l’amour et sa solitude. La question de l’amitié à la fin du poème se démarque de cette idée de non-rencontre amoureuse, du désir insatisfait.

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“Certainly I came to medicine because I had the suspicion that the relations between man and woman played a determining role in the symptoms of human beings. This gradually pushed me towards those who did not succeed, since psychosis can certainly be said to be a kind of failure in the fulfillment of what is called 'love'.”

Lacan J., “Yale University: Kanzer Lecture”, The Lacanian Review, No 12 (2022), p. 46.