The Heart of the Matter. More Topological Considerations On The Subject.

It is interesting that it was toward the end of his seminar for 1960-61 on the transference that Lacan first introduced the (o) object. This seminar on Transference had been largely devoted to Socrates address to and about Alcibiades' quest for the agalma. It would appear that from then on Lacan turned away from any further 'mythification' about the (o) object which was what the agalma represented. From then on he seriously began to describe a science of the (o) object as material cause of truth for the subject.…