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Abstract
Love has so honeycombed today’s ethical discourse that it’s as though we have
been taken hostage by an Other whose escalating demands on our affection now carry the
full force and weight of the original super-egoic injunction from which Freud so
famously recoiled.1 Yet the proper answer to this loving impasse is not, as Slavoj Žižek
has recently suggested, to respond with a fully “ethical” violence that shatters the loving
circle but, rather, more love.