Lacanian Ink 19

Alain Badiou elaborates on Lacan\x27s statement that \x26#34;love comes to supplement the lack of sexual rapport. Formally, one must determine what a function of supplement is, even up to the point at which a rapport cannot be written. Ontologically, one accepts that if sexual rapport cannot be written, if it is non\-existent as an effect of structure, then love itself as supplement can only arrive by chance. The event that must be registered as love is what establishes that the sexual is of the order of being. It is what Lacan asserted when he professed that love is an approach, or a \x27coming aboard\x27: \x27Being is love which comes aboard in the encounter.\x27 The encounter is the name of the amorous chance, inasmuch as it initiates the supplement.\x26#34;