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Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
Jacques Lacan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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's 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 ... Read more
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's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509523603
SKU
V9781509523603
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About Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth-century's most influential thinkers. His works include Ecrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and the many other volumes of The Seminar.
Reviews for Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
In this extraordinary text Lacan teaches us that to become Lacanians would be to miss the point. To understand transference, Lacan shows us with his usual wit and precision, is to understand how and why people get stuck in their relationships to people, and to ideas. This is Lacan at his breeziest and most incisive. He reveals once again, in ... Read more