Reading Group

Transference and Its Object: The Agalma  

Lillian Ferrari 

Contrary to being an intersubjective phenomenon, Lacan connects transference in analysis with a particular object he isolates in his seminar on Transference as the agalma, a hidden, precious object of desire enclosed in the other, and the antecedent of his notion of object a. We will read selected chapters of Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61).

Dates: Meetings will take place on Thursdays, from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM on the following dates: November 13, 2025, December 11, 2025, January 22, 2026, and February 19, 2026. 

Location: Online via Zoom.

Fee: Attendance is free.

Registration: Please contact Lillian Ferrari at lillasferrari@gmail.com.

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Lillian Ferrari is a psychoanalyst practicing in NYC, and a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. She has taught at Washington Square Institute and PINC (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California), and lectured at the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society. Among her numerous articles on psychoanalysis are those published in Sexualidad y los (Letra Viva, 2018) and in the online collection La ilusión de vivir, ¿tiene porvenir?.