Love and the Image in Nancy and Lacan
Love and the Image in Nancy and Lacan

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines Nancy's philosophy of the image through Lacan's remarks about love. In L'Oscillation distinct, Nancy outlines a parallel between love and the image through their relationship to presence as lack. Starting from this comparison between the image and love through themes of lack and the temporality of lack, this essay will outline a symmetry between Nancy's understanding of the image and his understanding of the self. Nancy's elaborations on the force of the image and on the groundlessness of the image lead to the Lacanian agalma and to the Lacanian formulation 'love is giving what one does not have'.

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