Love on Socrates and Alcibiades and the analytical transfer

Abstract

The relation between Alcibíades and Socrates exposed in Platos Symposium, is read by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in such a way that he extracts from it the elements that compose the proper thing of the positions of the lover and the beloved, which founds the loving bond. These positions are also put into play in the transferential bond, typical of an analysand in an experience of analysis, which is established from the relationship of a subject with its object of desire. The purpose of this dissertation is, therefore, to account for the reading of the Symposium advanced by Lacan, in what itteaches about analytic transference.