Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII

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.

Presents innovative conceptual engagements with material on transference newly available to an Anglophone audience Examines at a granular pace, the individual chapters of Lacan's text, treating one or two at a time Offers an essential companion text to Lacan's Seminar VIII for both first-time readers and advanced scholars Provides fresh insights on transference that will be of interest to both clinicians and theorists working in the fields of psychoanalysis, film, literature and culture

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Gautam Basu Thakur is associate professor of English at Boise State, USA and author of Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015) and Postcolonial 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).

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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; Miguel Rivera.- 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; Fred Baitinger.- Chapter 14. Oral, Anal, and Genital: Commentary on Session XV; Jonathan Dickstein.- Chapter 15. Killing the Soul with Zucchi's Painting: Commentary on Session XVI; Joseph R. Shafer.- Chapter 16. The Art of Questioning 'Real Presence': Commentary on Session XVII; Joseph R. Shafer.- Chapter 17. Real Presence: Commentary on Session XVIII; Stephanie Swales.- Chapter 18. The Claudel Sessions: Commentary on Sessions XIX-XXII; Ed Pluth.- Chapter 19. Paradoxes of transference and the place of the psychoanalyst: Commentary on Session XXIII; Rodrigo Gonsalves.- Chapter 20. Beyond the Mirror: Commentary on Session XXIV; Jelica Sumic Riha.- Chapter 21. Mind the Gap: Commentary on Session XXV; Gautam Basu Thakur.- Chapter 22. The Movement Of The Pendulum and the Spiral Turn: An Analysis of Lacan's XXVI Lessons from Seminar VIII: Commentary on Session XXVI; Ivan Estevao.- Chapter 23. The Transmission of an End Mourning the Loss of the Analyst Commentary on Session XXVII; Cindy Zeiher.