Description
The ideal of platonic love was demystified by Jacques Lacan at the beginning of his teaching years. Lacan tried to distinguish a demand for love which is directed toward the other from a desire which looks only for its satisfaction. It is not until Laca give the seminar Transference (1960–1961) that he finds in The Banquet a scandalous scene between Socrates and Alcibiades which allows a place for Eros as emergent from a place, that of deisre. This allows Lacan to distance his idea of love from the Hegelian logic which supposes that desire has at its essence the destruction of its object.
El amor ideal platónico es desmitificado por Jacques Lacan desde los primeros años de su enseñanza, en su lugar buscó la forma de distinguir una demanda amorosa que apunta al ser del otro, de la del deseo que busca su satisfacción. Sin embargo no es hasta el seminario de La transferencia (1960-1961) donde Lacan logra, gracias a la escena escandalosa que Alcibíades le hace a Sócrates en el Banquete, encontrar el sustento para Eros como emergencia de un lugar, el del deseo, y distanciarse de la lógica hegeliana que supone que el deseo conlleva la destrucción del objeto.