Individuation by love. Erotic phenomenon of Jean-Luc Marion

This review-article aims to present the inner structure of J.-L. Marion's book of 2003, Le phenomene erotique. Although closely related to the former development of the phenomenology of donation, his analysis of the concept of love discloses significantly new philosophical elements as it shows the pre-eminence, own rationality and univocity of this concept. My paper basically takes into account the question of the individuation of the other and of the self within the saturated phenomenon of love. I discuss the coherence and conceptual consistency of its "figures" and description. I also try to suggest the possibility to question further in the direction of God as "the third" who grants or attests the individuation of the lovers in a unique common erotic phenomenon. Eventually, I claim that his overwhelming importance might affect the "two-entrance" phenomenon of love and the definition of the lover whose figure he is supposed to assume in his manifestation.