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In ''[[The Symposium]]'' the analyst's position is identified with Socrates', while Alcibiades occupies the position of the analysand, who after Socrates will discover himself desiring.
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Alcibiades desires because he presumes Socrates is in possession of the ''agalma'' - the [[phallus]] as desirable.
Desire is only its empty place.
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