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Love

• Three categories of Love: Lust, Attraction, Attachment
  • Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship
• 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
Lacan's Symbolic Order / Big Other


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