#objet petit

[esmamig]

Lacan's objet a

[gilliancharlotte]

First, love cannot be reduced to a mere illusion or imaginary phenomenon: beyond its fascination with the image of its object, true love aims at the kernel of the real, at what is in the object more than the object itself . . . Love--as well as hate--is supported by what remains of the object when it is stripped of all its imaginary and symbolic features.

- Renata Salecl, Slavoj Zizek