Il Simposio di Platone letto da Jacques Lacan: ἔρως, κύκλος, ἐραστής, ἄγαλμα

Abstract

Lacan’s VIII Seminar is about the transference in the analytic cure considered through the Plato’s Symposium and its commentary by Léon Robin (1929). This paper outlines some of the major points of this extensive and innovative commentary on the Plato’s text with special attention to what Lacan takes from Robin’s commentary and what the French psychoanalyst says about four words: ἔρως, κύκλος, ἐραστής and ἄγαλμα. Those last words might be considered the most important in order to understand the Lacan’s reading of the Symposium: with the help of his ἀγάλματα, Socrates was the first psychoanalyst in history who was able to convert Alcibiades (the analysand) into an ἐραστής.