{"product_id":"transference-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-viii-9780745660394","title":"Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII","description":"\"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 -  galma, 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,  galma - 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 (Aid s), 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Lacan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745660394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Lacan\u003c\/b\u003e (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth-century's most influential thinkers. His many works include \u003ci\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e and the many other volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Seminar\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40120013881459,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ea9090fc-edd2-46d6-81c0-0fbf48e7015d.jpg?v=1653662215","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/transference-the-seminar-of-jacques-lacan-book-viii-9780745660394","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}