Hate, A Passion Unlike Any Other

The article aims at situating the relation between passion and knowledge on the basis of the three passions indicated by Lacan —ignorance, love, and hate. In this endeavor, it highlights the shape that hatred can assume in transference, as well as its development during analysis. To that effect, it makes a series of distinctions regarding the clinical manifestations of hate. The objective of these elaborations is to underline the effects of analysis on hatred and the impossibility of the emergence of separation hate as the concluding moment of the analytical experience. If hate leads to separation from the analyst, this does not entail the dismissal of the Other, but rather, the contrary: hate serves to make the Other exist.