Speaker: Dr. Luis Izcovich – Sunday, 1 March 2026, 7.30 pm (Tehran time) – online & Free – Register by emailing, ravankavi@pm.me
Seminar argument by Dr. Izcovich
Since its invention by Freud, psychoanalysis has placed transference at the center of the experience. Lacan said, “In the beginning was love.” Of course, transference is not unique to psychoanalysis. Lacan gave it its logical structure: “The one to whom I attribute knowledge, I love.”
This requires grasping the distinction between transference love in analysis and the love of knowledge, which is present in many circumstances of life.
Our discussion will focus on entering analysis, the logic of the treatment, and the evolution of transference within analysis. Our starting point is the Freudian conception of transference. Indeed, Freud approached the question from the notion of false connexion and substitution. We love someone because they are the substitute for a loved figure from our childhood. But Freud also addressed transference love as a true love.
Our objective in this lecture is to define the coordinates of transference love and what changes at the level of love for a subject who confronts the experience of analysis. Is it possible to speak of a new love after analysis?
Lacan’s proposal around the notion of agalma, which he extracts from Plato’s Symposium (also known as The Banquet), and the conception he puts forward on the subject supposed to know will be the fundamental axes for situating what can be hoped for a subject from a Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis.