A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Ps

"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what?

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalys

The author's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as

Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.