Writing Assignment

What Jean-Luc Nancy expressed as finding joy in the other is something many people can relate to . It brings into focus the transformative powers of love . I agree that an all-consuming love leads to losing oneself in the beloved , which is not akin to losing one 's identity , though . This extent of being so bound to the other , particularly in the case between husbands and wives fulfilling their duties to each other , is the moral type of love

Because two individuals start out as two distinct entities , who soon discover and

lose themselves in each other , there is to a certain extent an injurability that the human beings in love must live with . The subject is , as Nancy puts it , broken or fractured ' and the break is the break in his self-possession as subject (Nancy 96 . In other words , it is `the break itself that makes the heart (Nancy 96

Love , as Nancy also expressed , cuts across finitude , always from the other to the other , which never returns to the same . Love offers finitude in its truth it is finitude 's dazzling presentation (Nancy 99 . I can identify with the thought of love cutting across finitude ' and being finitude 's dazzling presentation (Nancy 99 considering the context with which Jean-Luc Nancy wrote this - with two people in love being part of a community of others (Nancy 15

Overall , I find Jean-Luc Nancy 's concept of love a little complicated Love , I think , ought to be easy and natural , but at the same time perplexing , while predisposing two souls sharing it to innumerable hurts but which , when conquered , elevates the experience to a new and more profound level . I am also more inclined to believe that a really caring and selfless love is one that makes whole again whatever it is...