ABSTRACT
Among the Lacanian discourses, the analyst’s discourse (AD) is the only one—the sole social bond—which treats the other as a subject. The AD is the only one that allows us to elucidate the others. Based on it, Jacques Lacan formulated the other discourses as social bonds, for the AD reveals object a may be found in lieu of any actual human agent, in the role of the dominant. The nature of adornment and agalmatic object is offered to the gods as a trompel'oeil, or a kind of optical illusion or ruse which bewitches the beholder's gaze. This is the real trick of agalmatic transference. In analytical terms, the analyst's agalmatic presence elicits the analysand's desire for knowledge. Eros and particularly erotic knowledge is what Plato's Symposium is about. In the Symposium, an encounter with agalma always implies something good—eutuchia—that positive tyche which denotes the presence of object a, the desire's cause.
