Love then is the illusion for the absence of harmonic rapport between the sexes. Man does not enjoy the body of the woman, only the body part - sexual drives go solely towards the partial object. They are imaginary signifiers whose matter is taken from the image. When we say 'the living body,' we leave aside both the symbolized body and the body image. The body affected by jouissance is neither imaginary nor symbolic, but a living one.
Life is a condition of jouissance .
Life overflows the body. What obliges you to attest there isn't jouissance unless life appears under the form of a living body. There is therefore no sexual rapport between two subjects, but only between two subjects and an object - a partial object. Woman serves a function in the sexual rapport only qua mother. Traumatic is the sexual non-rapport in that the sexual relation is a hole in the real.