Philosphers and Love

"One of the great theorisers of love, Jacques Lacan, engaged in dialogue with Plato and concluded, “there is no such thing as a sexual relationship." He reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on their own. Naturally, the other’s body has to be mediated, but at the end of the day, the pleasure will be always your pleasure. Sex separates, doesn’t unite. The fact you are naked and pressing against the other is an image, an imaginary representation. What's real is that pleasure takes you a long way away, very far from the other. What is real is narcissistic, what binds is imaginary." —

Alain Badiou