Amanda Holmes‘ Talk at Newcastle University
Holmes will be a guest speaker at the Faculty Research Group in Critical Theory and Practice at Newcastle University. Title: Object little ágalma: What Plato taught Lacan Abstract: In the eighth year of Lacan’s seminar, he turns to Plato’s Symposium in order to develop his own account of transference love, naming the fundamentally odd relationship of the patient to the doctor, or of the analysand to the analyst. This reading of the Symposium marks Lacan’s only sustained reading of an…