Table of Contents

I. In the Beginning Was Love
II. Set and Characters
III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus
IV. The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias
V. Medical Harmony: Eryximachus
VI. Deriding the Sphere: Aristophanes
VII. The Atopia of Eros: Agathon
VIII. From Epistéme to Mýthos
IX. Exit from the Ultra-World
X. Ágalma
XI. Between Socrates and Alcibiades
XII. Transference in the Present
XIII. A Critique of Countertransference
XIV. Demand and Desire in the Oral and Anal Stages
XV. Oral, Anal, and Genital
XVI. Psyche and the Castration Complex
XVII. The Symbol
XVIII. Real Presence
XIX. Sygne’s No
XX. Turelure’s Abjection
XXI. Pensée’s Desire
XXII. Structural Decomposition
XXIII. Slippage in the Meaning of the Ideal
XXIV. Identification via “ein einziger Zug”
XXV. The Relationship between Anxiety and Desire
XXVI. “A Dream of a Shadow Is Man”
XXVII. Mourning the Loss of the Analyst

About the Author

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of thetwentieth-century s most influential thinkers. His many worksinclude Ecrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts ofPsychoanalysis and the many other volumes of TheSeminar.

Reviews

"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."
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