Titlebook: Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII; Transference Gautam Basu Thakur,Jonathan Dickstein Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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,“Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V,’. In this section of the seminar, as the title suggests, Lacan discusses the notion of medical harmony. The notion of the medical here is raised in Plato’s ., the text Lacan has taken as the basis of his seminar, but he also connects to the clinic in the psychoanalytic sense. Lacan is therefore abl

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,“From , to ,”: Commentary on Session VIII, Plato’s ., instead of the many psychoanalytic writings available at the time, in his treatment of the topic of transference, and follow the progression of his text with a commentary on the themes it presents: how myth and stories take over where knowledge and discourse fail; how love occupies the s

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,The Question of the Meaning of ,: Between Hermeneutics, Topology, and Unconcealment—Commentary on She discussion around love. Following the speeches delivered by Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, and Aristophanes culminating in the epistemological and mythological expressions of the meaning of love which are followed by speeches delivered by Agathon and Socrates focusing respectively on the rheto

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: Commentary on Session X,ch many in his audience apparently didn’t quite catch. Agalma is an ornament or a piece of jewelry. But while this is technically correct, Lacan thinks it only scratches the surface of what the Greek word is expressing. For him, it seems to be a topological concept (more on this to come), and he sug

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Between Socrates and Alcibiades: Commentary on Session XI, of agalma? Alcibiades—as Lacan writes in the previous chapter—“rips us away from the dialectic of beauty that had, up until then, served as the pathway, guide, or mode of capture along the pathway of the desirable” (138). For it is what’s inside the other that matters, not what presses in from the

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,“Oral, Anal, and Genital”: Commentary on Session XV,gmund Freud in his formative work . (1905) called the ‘developmental phases of sexual organization (Entwicklungsphasen der sexuellen Organisation)’ (Freud 1905, p. 54). In my reading, I review Lacan’s challenges to the function the so-termed ‘naturalist view’ on these phases in order to tease out so