Freud’s understanding of science allowed no origin for commitment to ethical values except via the superego. Recently, some psychoanalysts have found a more persuasive source in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas. In this paper, using in particular Viviane Chetrit-Vatine’s notion of “matricial space,” I attempt to look further at the implications of Levinas’s idea of “transcendence,” not as something special but as the ordinary horizon of seriously-held ethical values. To work as such, it must involve an affective dimension. Referencing Derrida’s Adieu for Levinas, I discuss this in terms of different meanings of the word “love,” in particular a certain sort of love for the unique “being” of the other, rather than for his or her “doing.”