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“Set and Characters” and “The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus”—Commentary on Sessions II and III

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The commentaries on sessions II and III focus on the ancient, early modern, and modern authors, figures, and texts to provide context to the ancient material Lacan only mentions in passing. Together these bring to bear contexts or backgrounds whose absence might restrict our understanding of these sessions.

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    Dan Mills

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  1. Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA

    Gautam Basu Thakur

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    Jonathan Dickstein

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Mills, D. (2020). “Set and Characters” and “The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus”—Commentary on Sessions II and III. In: Basu Thakur, G., Dickstein, J. (eds) Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_2

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