Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030327422
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2.Lacan writes, “(…) the final articulation of the Symposium—this apologue or scenario verging on myth—allows us to structure the situation of the analysand in the presence of the analyst around the position of two desires” (179).

3.For a detailed analysis of the notion of agalma, see Jacques Lacan, “Agalma,” in Seminar VIII, Transference, Text established by Jacques-Alain Miller, Trans. Bruce Fink (Polity, Malden, 2015), pp. 135–148. Lacan writes, “agalma, from agallo,” “to adorn, to ornament,” signifies in effect—at first sight – “ornament, adornment.” First of all the notion of ornament, of adornment is not that simple; it can be seen immediately that this may take us very far. (…) You should not see in it any taste for rarity but rather the fact that in a text which we supposed to be extremely rigorous, that of the Symposium, something leads us to this crucial point which is formally indicated at the moment at which I told you the stage revolves completely and, after these games of praising regulated as they had been up to then by this subject of love, there enters this actor, Alcibiades, who is going to change everything.”

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