Plato's Symposium as Backdrop to a Consideration of the Object described as 'Partial'

The author argues that a consideration of the subjective economy crucially calls for reflection on an object described as “partial Plato’s Symposium (or more evocatively Le Banquet) which forms a backdrop to major sections of Lacan’s Seminar VIII on Transference, leads her to the notion of agalma, which, she explains, suggests an object which lacks the full and steady presence expected of an object, a partial that is not part of any whole.…