Studying Lacan's Seminar VIII

The fifth volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series offers a fresh, contemporary engagement with the central themes and concepts of Lacan's eighth seminar, Transference.Bringing together eleven chapters from a stellar, international assembly of Lacanian psychoanalysts, this volume opens with Bruce Fink's introductory chapter, adapted from a talk he gave to mark the launch of his translation of Seminar VIII. Fink offers a rich overview of the seminar, tracing its connections to Lacan's later reflections on love. Each contributor brings an international scholarly reputation alongside deep standing within their own country's psychoanalytic community, whether through clinical practice, academic teaching, salons, or cartel work. The essays explore the seminar's key themes, from Lacan's reading of Plato's Symposium to his engagement with Claudel's trilogy, drawing out the clinical and metapsychological threads of his teaching and testing their relevance for psychoanalytic practice today.Transference in Lacanian Psychoanalysis will appeal to scholars of literature, queer studies, film studies, and psycho-social studies, as well as to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists drawing on Lacan's thought in their clinical work.