When all duality is wiped out, one drowns in the self. Without any duality, one merges with oneself. This narcissistic meltdown is fatal. Alain Badiou also calls love the ‘stage of the Two’.9 It enables us to re-create the world from the perspective of the Other and leave behind the habitual. It is an event that allows something entirely Other to begin. Today, on the other hand, we inhabit the stage of the One.
