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Hypothesizing Love: Lacan and Plato’s Symposium—Commentary on Session VII

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What constitutes Lacan’s uptake of Socrates’s praising of love? In endeavoring to traverse love in a scientific thought experiment which considers love as way into truth via the knowledge one has, Lacan claims that it is love’s transference (the ultimate interruption of language) which binds the subject-in-love to love’s signifying effects.

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  1. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences; Sociology and Anthropology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Cindy Zeiher

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  1. Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA

    Gautam Basu Thakur

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    Jonathan Dickstein

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Zeiher, C. (2020). Hypothesizing Love: Lacan and Plato’s Symposium—Commentary on Session VII. 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_6

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