Jacques Lacan

Transference

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII

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Produktbeschreibung

'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 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's desire manifest itself in a sign, in order to know that the other--the object, ágalma--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 Aidós, Shame, about which I spoke to you at another time 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780745660394
• ISBN-10: 0745660398
• Artikelnr.: 42026584

Autorenporträt

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth-century's most influential thinkers. His many works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and the many other volumes of The Seminar.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Epistéme to M?thos IX. Exit from the
Ultra-World X. Ágalma 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. Pensée'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