ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan followed the writings of St Augustine, who said that love is a form of appetite—hunger. In her book Love and St. Augustine, Hanna Arendt added that craving and appetite are linked to a specific object. As St Augustine wrote, love is a form of movement and all movements are made towards something. The movement of love stands in contrast to the movement of desire: from a certain object rather than towards it. In 1910, when Sigmund Freud set out the essential conditions for love in his essay "A Special Type of Choice of Object Made by Men", he apologized for invading the territory usually occupied by poets. The initial stage of Freud's theory was a by-product of his discoveries about juvenile sexuality and it appears in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. In Freud's opinion, falling in love occurs at the moment when narcissistic libido becomes the libido of the object.
