“Christian Faith rests upon an indelible confidence in the existence of an Ideal Father, and upon ab-solute love for this loving Father, who is seen, quite simply, as the foundation of the speaking subject, who is, consequently, none other than the subject of loving speech. The Father of Agape or Amor, therefore, not Eros, although these two kinds of love come together, when they are not opposed, in Christian histories. “I love because I am loved, therefore I am,” could be the believer’s syllogism…. This syllogism takes us back to the “loving father of individual prehistory,” whom we encountered with Freud at the start of our discussion.”

Kristeva,
This Incredible Need to Believe, 49