Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII

by Jacques Lacan

Book Overview

"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 - ágalma, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150952360X
• ISBN13: 9781509523603
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"