ABSTRACT
The question of knowing if psychoanalysis can promise a new love, beyond the symptoms of love life that are addressed to it, has been there from the start. From the beginning, S. Freud postulated that the bonds of the passions of love, incomprehensible as they are, escape neither rationality nor logic. Jacques Lacan followed the same axis that bound love to castration, in itself the effect of language. There are many such judgements in Freud's writing and the notion of defence itself involves them. When Lacan says that the neurotic is a coward, that his sadness is a fault, not against God as in Christianity, but against the analytic imperative, it is a judgment relative to the ethics of psychoanalysis. At the end of seminar Encore, Lacan introduces this as an affect, an effect of the real unconscious. Dante obtained from Beatrice only the fluttering of an eyelash, a look, the object of his phantasy.
