The following story, first told by Lacan in 1960, is exemplary of what he said about love. I will call it the story of the fruit and the flame. It goes like this:
Imagine you see in front of you a beautiful flower or a ripe fruit. You reach out your hand to grab it. But at the moment you do, the flower, or the fruit, bursts into flames. In its place you see another hand appear, reaching back towards your own. (Seminar VIII, p.52; p.179).
In this story is condensed all the things that interested Lacan about love.
http://www.lacanonline.com/index/2016/06/what-does-lacan-say-about-love/
http://nosubject.com/Main_Page
