Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII

Chapter 1 Toward an Erotics of Truth: Commentary on Session I

Chapter 2 “Set and Characters” and “The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus”—Commentary on Sessions II and III

Chapter 3 “The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias”—Commentary on Session IV

Chapter 4 “Medical Harmony: Eryximachus”—Commentary on Session V

Chapter 5 First as Comedy, Then as Tragicomedy: Castration, Atopia, and Ab-Sex Sense—Commentary on Sessions VI and VII

Chapter 6 Hypothesizing Love: Lacan and Plato’s Symposium —Commentary on Session VII

Chapter 7 “From Episteme to Mythous ”: Commentary on Session VIII

Chapter 8 The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma : Between Hermeneutics, Topology, and Unconcealment—Commentary on Sessions IX and X

Chapter 10 Between Socrates and Alcibiades: Commentary on Session XI

Chapter 11 Socrates as an Analyst: A Reading of “Transference in the Present” Commentary on Session XII

Chapter 12 “A Critique of Countertransference”: Commentary on Session XIII

Chapter 13 In the Name of Desire: A Reading of Lacan’s “Demand and Desire in the Oral and Anal Stage”—Commentary on Session XIV

Chapter 14 “Oral, Anal, and Genital”: Commentary on Session XV

Chapter 15 Killing the Soul with Zucchi’s Painting: Commentary on Session XVI

Chapter 16 The Art of Questioning “Real Presence”

Chapter 17 “Real Presence”: Commentary on Session XVIII

Chapter 18 The Claudel Sessions: Commentary on Sessions XIX–XXII

Chapter 19 Paradoxes of Transference and the Place of the Psychoanalyst: Commentary on Session XXIII

Chapter 20 Beyond the Mirror: Commentary on Session XXIV

Chapter 21 Mind the Gap: Commentary on Session XXV

Chapter 22 The Movement of the Pendulum and the Spiral Turn: An Analysis of Lacan’s XXVI Lesson from Seminar VIII: Commentary on Session XXVI

Chapter 23 The Transmission of an End: “Mourning the Loss of the Analyst” Commentary on Session XXVII