The Third Generation of Desire.

Yet Lacan devotes four sessions of the seiminar to a discussion of not one but three of Paul Claudel's plays, the famous Trilogy that includes L'Otage (The Hostage[2] [1911]), Le Pain dur (Stale Bread[3] [1918]) and Le Pere humilié (The Humiliated Father[4] [1919]). What relevance all this may have for the problem of transference and what gain there might be for us in struggling with it - these are the questions I wish to address here.…