A Lover's DiscourseThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an image repertoire. This work revivesbeyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culturethe notion of the amorous subject. It should be enjoyed and understood by two groups of readers: those who have been