Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII

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).

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.