Name: Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Viii
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Author: Jacques Lacan
ISBN: 9780745660394

portada Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Viii

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Lacan

Publisher

Blackwell Publ

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780745660394

Edition No.

Synopsis "Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book Viii"

"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 Αἰδώς (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

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(París, 1901 — 1981). Fue un médico psiquiatra y psicoanalista francés conocido por los aportes teóricos que hiciera al psicoanálisis basándose en la experiencia analítica y en la lectura de Freud, incorporando a su vez elementos del estructuralismo, de la lingüística estructural, de las matemáticas, y de la filosofía.

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