There is no support for love… as I have told you: to give one’s love, is very precisely and essentially to give as such nothing of what one has, because ...

There is no support for love… as I have told you: to give one’s love, is very precisely and essentially to give as such nothing of what one has, because it is precisely in so far as one does not have it that there is a question of love.

Jacques Lacan in Seminar V, The Formations of the Unconscious (7 May 1958)
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