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It is interesting to consider why Lacan takes up Genet’s Le Balcon as a way of considering the end of the analytic situation. We can consider those parallels between the analytic clinic and bordello inscribed into his final session of Seminar VIII as a way of reading failure and mourning as a transmission into another desire.
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Zeiher, C. (2020). The Transmission of an End: “Mourning the Loss of the Analyst” Commentary on Session XXVII. In: Basu Thakur, G., Dickstein, J. (eds) Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII. The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32742-2_23
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