Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII: Transference
by Basu Thakur, Gautam Dickstein, Jonathan Michael
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, whil…
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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.
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- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030327422, 3030327426
- oclc:on1148863385
- LC Classification:BF1-990
- Dewey Decimal:150.195
Table of Contents
Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Toward an Erotics of Truth: Commentary on Session I -- Introduction -- In the Beginning ... -- Plato's Schwärmerei -- Socrates and Freud -- A Critique of Intersubjectivity -- References -- 2 "Set and Characters" and "The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus"-Commentary on Sessions II and III -- Session II -- Set and Characters -- Lacan Introduces the Symposium -- Lacan Analyzes the Symposium -- Lacan Analyzes Greek Love -- Session III -- Lacan on Love and Transference
Lacan on Love and Religion -- Lacan on Love and Mythology -- References -- 3 "The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias"-Commentary on Session IV -- The Heavenly vs. The Common Aphrodite -- Pausanias Having Paused -- References -- 4 "Medical Harmony: Eryximachus"-Commentary on Session V -- References -- 5 First as Comedy, Then as Tragicomedy: Castration, Atopia, and Ab-Sex Sense-Commentary on Sessions VI and VII -- References -- 6 Hypothesizing Love: Lacan and Plato's Symposium-Commentary on Session VII -- References -- 7 "From Episteme to Mythous": Commentary on Session VIII -- References
8 The Question of the Meaning…
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