Can Philosophy Love? Quotes

“In love, the subject identifies itself with the other’s difference, but this identification does not eliminate the difference. It creates a disturbance in the subject’s identity that transforms that identity, revealing that identity is never isolated. Love is possible because the relation to difference is already part of identity even before the subject falls in love. But love makes this difference explicit. In doing so, the contradiction of identity becomes evident.”
― Todd McGowan, Can Philosophy Love?: Reflections and Encounters