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Transference

Jacques Lacan ; editd by Jacques-Alain Miller ; translated by Bruce Fink

(The seminar of Jacques Lacan / Jacques Lacan ; edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, bk. 8)

Polity, c2015

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Le transfert

Transfert, 1960-1961

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"First published in French as Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan, Livre VIII, Le transfert (c) Éditions du Seuil, 1991; revised edition published in 2001"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades' desire - agalma, the good object. I would go even further. How can we analysts fail to recognize what is involved? He says quite clearly: Socrates has the good object in his stomach. Here Socrates is nothing but the envelope in which the object of desire is found. It is in order to clearly emphasize that he is nothing but this envelope that Alcibiades tries to show that Socrates is desire's serf in his relations with Alcibiades, that Socrates is enslaved to Alcibiades by his desire. Although Alcibiades was aware that Socrates desired him, he wanted to see Socrates' desire manifest itself in a sign, in order to know that the other - the object, agalma - was at his mercy. Now, it is precisely because he failed in this undertaking that Alcibiades disgraces himself, and makes of his confession something that is so affectively laden. The daemon of (Aidos), Shame, about which I spoke to you before in this context, is what intervenes here. This is what is violated here. The most shocking secret is unveiled before everyone; the ultimate mainspring of desire, which in love relations must always be more or less dissimulated, is revealed - its aim is the fall of the Other, A, into the other, a." Jacques Lacan

Table of Contents

I. In the Beginning Was Love II. Set and Characters III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus IV. The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias V. Medical Harmony: Eryximachus VI. Deriding the Sphere: Aristophanes VII. The Atopia of Eros: Agathon VIII. From Episteme to Mythos IX. Exit from the Ultra-World X. Agalma XI. Between Socrates and Alcibiades XII. Transference in the Present XIII. A Critique of Countertransference XIV. Demand and Desire in the Oral and Anal Stages XV. Oral, Anal, and Genital XVI. Psyche and the Castration Complex XVII. The Symbol XVIII. Real Presence XIX. Sygne's No XX. Turelure's Abjection XXI. Pensee's Desire XXII. Structural Decomposition XXIII. Slippage in the Meaning of the Ideal XXIV. Identification via "ein einziger Zug" XXV. The Relationship between Anxiety and Desire XXVI. "A Dream of a Shadow Is Man" XXVII. Mourning the Loss of the Analyst

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