This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

What happens when an analyst places her- or himself in the treatment as an imaginary object rather than functioning as a semblance of object a? The analysis bogs down. Lacan illustrates the analyst's position with the episode in the Odyssey in which Odysseus eludes destruction by the sirens’ voices by lashing himself to the mast.