Reading Lacan's seminar VIII: transference

by Basu Thakur, Gautam Dickstein, Jonathan Michael

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Full title :Reading Lacan's seminar VIII : transference / Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Dickstein, editors.

Summary

This book provides 18 lively commentaries on Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61) that explore its theoretical and philosophical consequences in the clinic, the classroom, and society. Including contributions from clinicians as well as scholars working in philosophy, literature, and culture studies, the commentaries presented here represent a wide-range of disciplinary perspectives on the concept of transference. Some chapters closely follow the structure of the seminar's sessions, while others take up thematic concerns or related sessions such as the commentary on sessions 19 to 22 which deal with Lacan's discussion of Claudel's Coûfontaine trilogy. This book is not a compendium to Lacan's seminar. Instead it attempts to capture through shorter contributions a spectrum of voices debating, deliberating, and learning with Lacan's concept. In doing so it can be seen to engage with transference conceptually in a manner that matches the spirit of Lacan's seminar itself. The book will provide an invaluable new resource for Lacan scholars working across the fields of psychoanalytic theory, clinical psychology, philosophy and cultural studies. Gautam Basu Thakur is associate professor of English at Boise State, USA and author of Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015) andPostcolonial Lack (2020) and co-editor of Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018). Jonathan Dickstein is an Independent Scholar of Lacanian psychoanalysis, computer science, and mathematics. He is the co-editor of Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 301 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030327415, 3030327418
oclc:on1124483863
LC Classification:BF109.L28
Dewey Decimal:150.195

Chapter 1. Toward an Erotics of Truth: Commentary on Session I; Derek Hook -- Chapter 2. "Set and Characters" & "The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus": Commentary on Sessions II & III; Dan Mills -- Chapter 3. "The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias": Commentary on Session IV; Stephanie Swales -- Chapter 4. "Medical Harmony: Eryximachus": Commentary on Session V; Calum Neill -- Chapter 5. First as Comedy, Then as Tragicomedy: Castration, Atopia and Ab-Sex Sense: Commentary on Sessions VI and VII; Anthony Ballas -- Chapter 6. Hypothesising Love: Lacan and Plato's Symposium: Commentary on Session VII; Cindy Zeiher -- Chapter 7. "From Episteme to Mythous": Commentary on Session VIII; Owen Hewitson -- Chapter 8. The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment: Commentary on Sessions IX & X; Hue Woodson -- Chapter 9. "Ágalma": Commentary on Session X; Ed Pluth -- Chapter 10. Between Socrates and Alcibiades: Commentary on Session XI; Zack Tavlin -- Chapter 11. Socrates as an Analyst: A reading of "Transference in the Present" Commentary on Session XII; Frederic Baitinger -- Chapter 12. "A Critique of Countertransference": Commentary on Session XIII; Migue…