“I desire the other as desiring, and when I say ‘as desiring’, I did not even say - I deliberately did not say - ‘as desiring me’: for it is I who desire, and desiring desire, this desire could only be desire for me if I rediscover myself at this turning point where of course I am, namely if I love myself in the other.
In other words if it is myself that I love.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar IX, Identification










