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Love

• Three categories of Love: Lust, Attraction, Attachment
• Debunking Love as Chemicals
  • "The Love Hormone is Two-Faced:Finding shows oxytocin strengthens bad memories and can increase fear and anxiety"
  • "Fact or Fiction?: Oxytocin Is the 'Love Hormone'"

Lacan

Real, Imaginary, Symbolic

The three aspects: Real, Imaginary, Symbolic


The Real
Lacan's Order of the Real, pleasure, Extimacy, Symptom and the Thing


Mirror Phase


The Imaginary
Lacan's Imaginary Order


The Symbolic


The Search for Meaning


The Desire to Return to the Real


Objet petit a (the little a)


Jouissance of the other


To fill the Emptiness with Meaning

Awareness of more emotiness