Today, as we are confronted with the choice of either love or sex, we will argue for Lacan's affirmation of the deadlock of sexual non-relationship, whose lack is filled with love. With Badiou's persistence on the difference in love as construction of truth and with Lacan's conceptualization of Thing or object small a, we will read literary works: Lessing's play Nathan the Wise, Grossman's novel See Under: Love, Kafka's short story Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk and Joyce's Letters to Nora. In the parable of Nathan the Wise, we will make a distinction between Hegelian and Lacanian desubstantialization of God and we will show that love is essentially atheist. In See Under: Love and Letters to Nora we will point at their compatibility with Žižek's Lacanian comprehension of matrix of courtly love that persists in today's love relationships. We will also indicate how James Joyce and his wife Nora successfully overcame the choice of either love or sex and Josephine will help us to set out communism as a notional horizon, which is the background of this dissertation.
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