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“The psychotic lives in the terror of breakdown (against which the various psychoses are merely defenses). But “the clinical fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown which has already been experienced (primitive agony) … and there are moments when a patient needs to be told that the breakdown, fear of which is wrecking his life, has already occurred.” Similarly, it seems, for the lover’s anxiety: it is the fear of a mourning which has already occurred, at the very origin of love, from the moment when I was first “ravished.” Someone would have to be able to tell me: “Don’t be anxious any more—you’ve already lost him/her.”

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments