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en-wikipedia-org-9342		Philosophy of love - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2818	722	54	Aristotle by contrast placed more emphasis on philia (friendship, affection) than on eros (love);[8] and the dialectic of friendship and love would continue to be played out into and through the Renaissance,[9] with Cicero for the Latins pointing out that "it is love (amor) from which the word 'friendship' (amicitia) is derived"[10] Meanwhile, Lucretius, building on the work of Epicurus, had both praised the role of Venus as "the guiding power of the universe", and criticised those who become "love-sick...life's best years squandered in sloth and debauchery".[11] Stendhal's theory of crystallization implied an imaginative readiness for love, which only needed a single trigger for the object to be imbued with every phantasised perfection.[16] Proust went further, singling out absence, inaccessibility or jealousy as the necessary precipitants of love.[17] Lacan would almost parody the tradition with his saying that "love is giving something you haven't got to someone who doesn't exist".[18] A post-Lacanian like Luce Irigaray would then struggle to find room for love in a world that will "reduce the other to the same...emphasizing eroticism to the detriment of love, under the cover of sexual liberation".[19]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9342.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9342.txt