 Embedded in the dynamics of the forces of life, love is a primordial life force that precedes but also informs the process of individuation. It defies conceptual grasp as its roots reach deeper than the sphere of the mind. While love eludes the firm grasp of the concept, it opens our eyes to the profound alterity of the other. Love and alterity are intimately intertwined and produce aporetic tension: How to reconcile alterity, construed as a condition for love, with the desire for union? Susman describes the paradoxical nature of love this way: