{"product_id":"transference-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-viii-hardback-9780745660394","title":"Transference; The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII (Hardback) 9780745660394","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacques Lacan (Author), Jacques-Alain Miller (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745660394, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15 x 4.1 cm, 0.839 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is to the benefit of the broader Lacanian world that this pitch-perfect translation – a decade or more in the making – is now available. Longtime Lacan translator, Bruce Fink, and Polity Press, both deserve commendation for this new addition to the series of Lacan�s seminars available in English. The scrupulous attention that has been dedicated to translating Lacan�s French into idiomatic English, the research evident in the detailed translator�s end-notes, and the formatting and finish of the final product (which includes a beautiful detail of Raphael�s School of Athens as a cover illustration) warrant it a special place in this series.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychodynamic Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“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 – ágalma, the good object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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, ágalma – was at his mercy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, 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 (Aidós), 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Lacan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eI. In the Beginning Was Love\u003cbr\u003e II. Set and Characters\u003cbr\u003e III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias\u003cbr\u003e V. Medical Harmony: Eryximachus\u003cbr\u003e VI. Deriding the Sphere: Aristophanes\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Atopia of Eros: Agathon\u003cbr\u003e VIII. From Epistéme to Mýthos\u003cbr\u003e IX. Exit from the Ultra-World\u003cbr\u003e X. Ágalma\u003cbr\u003e XI. Between Socrates and Alcibiades\u003cbr\u003e XII. Transference in the Present\u003cbr\u003e XIII. A Critique of Countertransference\u003cbr\u003e XIV. Demand and Desire in the Oral and Anal Stages\u003cbr\u003e XV. Oral, Anal, and Genital\u003cbr\u003e XVI. Psyche and the Castration Complex\u003cbr\u003e XVII. The Symbol \u003cbr\u003e XVIII. Real Presence\u003cbr\u003e XIX. Sygne’s No\u003cbr\u003e XX. Turelure’s Abjection\u003cbr\u003e XXI. Pensée’s Desire\u003cbr\u003e XXII. Structural Decomposition\u003cbr\u003e XXIII. Slippage in the Meaning of the Ideal\u003cbr\u003e XXIV. Identification via “ein einziger Zug”\u003cbr\u003e XXV. The Relationship between Anxiety and Desire\u003cbr\u003e XXVI. “A Dream of a Shadow Is Man”\u003cbr\u003e XXVII. 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